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Denholm Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3278
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3278 (3278)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5113 0914
- Latitude
- 55.37383
- Longitude
- -2.77270
- Altitude
- 265 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 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.31 ha, 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North 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
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3372
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55177
- National record
- record NT 50 NW 5; monument 55177
- Wikidata
- Q31105199
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