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Gray Coat
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3264
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3264 (3264)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Teviothead
- National Grid reference
- NT 4712 0497
- Latitude
- 55.33595
- Longitude
- -2.83518
- Altitude
- 379 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.52 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1974); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3459
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54101
- National record
- record NT 40 SE 2; monument 54101
- Wikidata
- Q31104988
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