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Highchesters Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3270
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3270 (3270)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NT 4582 1448
- Latitude
- 55.42125
- Longitude
- -2.85752
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.68 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1958); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1695
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54174
- National record
- record NT 41 SE 6; monument 54174
- Wikidata
- Q31105074
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