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Mid Hill

Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3277

Location

Atlas number
SC3277 (3277)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Scottish Borders
Historic county
Roxburghshire
Parish, community, or townland
Cavers
National Grid reference
NT 5135 0978
Latitude
55.37960
Longitude
-2.76934
Altitude
290 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate and partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
2
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
0.4 ha
Enclosure areas
0.25 ha, 0.4 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Entrance forms
Oblique (South west); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North east)

Landscape

Topographic position
spur
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior surface
round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965); Other (1973)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
3373
HER
Scottish Borders 55176
National record
record NT 50 NW 4; monument 55176
Wikidata
Q31105192

Sources

References

  1. 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