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Crom Rig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3263
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3263 (3263)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4286 0670
- Latitude
- 55.35101
- Longitude
- -2.90268
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1958); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1693
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54068
- National record
- record NT 40 NW 16; monument 54068
- Wikidata
- Q31104977
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