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Teindside Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3257
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3257 (3257)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4327 0859
- Latitude
- 55.36812
- Longitude
- -2.89648
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1948); Other (1960)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54083
- National record
- record NT 40 NW 4; monument 54083
- Wikidata
- Q31104826
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1956) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire: with the fourteenth report of the Commission, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh