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Borthaugh Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3268
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3268 (3268)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hawick
- National Grid reference
- NT 4664 1409
- Latitude
- 55.41784
- Longitude
- -2.84449
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.64 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1948); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54163
- National record
- record NT 41 SE 3; monument 54163
- Wikidata
- Q31104870
Sources
References
- Hardy, J. (1887) 'Report of meetings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, for the year 1886'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 11 (1885-6), 333-401
- 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