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Teindside Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3262
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3262 (3262)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4312 0821
- Latitude
- 55.36461
- Longitude
- -2.89889
- Altitude
- 244 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); 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
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Excavation (1873); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54065
- National record
- record NT 40 NW 13; monument 54065
- Wikidata
- Q31104839
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
- Stuart, C (1875) 'Address delivered to Berwickshire Naturalist's Club, at Berwick, September 25th, 1873'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 7 (1873-5), 3-26