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Todshaw Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3274
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3274 (3274)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NT 4474 1245
- Latitude
- 55.40289
- Longitude
- -2.87418
- Altitude
- 288 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1897); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1987); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2150
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54179
- National record
- record NT 41 SW 10; monument 54179
- Wikidata
- Q31105094
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