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Blakebillend
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3275
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3275 (3275)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5150 0630
- Latitude
- 55.34835
- Longitude
- -2.76637
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 1.6 ha
- Footprint
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1963); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2297
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55147
- National record
- record NT 50 NW 1; monument 55147
- Wikidata
- Q31105104
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