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Whitcastle Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3272
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3272 (3272)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NT 4402 1242
- Latitude
- 55.40257
- Longitude
- -2.88549
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (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
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1873); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1961); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1987); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2150
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54200
- National record
- record NT 41 SW 6; monument 54200
- Wikidata
- Q31105084
Sources
References
- Brydon, J (1875) 'Antiquities of the Prehistoric Period of the Hawick Neighbourhood'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 7 (1873-5), 74-81
- 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