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Coldhouse Kipp

Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3266

Location

Atlas number
SC3266 (3266)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Scottish Borders
Historic county
Roxburghshire
Parish, community, or townland
Hawick
National Grid reference
NT 4822 1721
Latitude
55.44604
Longitude
-2.82011
Altitude
287 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
0.23 ha
Footprint
0.36 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North east); Other Forms (North west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop and ridge
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
other roundhouse evidence
Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1948); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965)

Identifiers

HER
Scottish Borders 54118
National record
record NT 41 NE 2; monument 54118
Wikidata
Q31104854

Sources

References

  1. 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