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Earlside
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3276
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3276 (3276)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5280 0911
- Latitude
- 55.37373
- Longitude
- -2.74635
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 0.76 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southeast
- 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 55158
- National record
- record NT 50 NW 2; monument 55158
- Wikidata
- Q31104925
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