Home / Scotland / Scottish Borders / Adderston Shiels
Adderston Shiels
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3279
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3279 (3279)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5185 0964
- Latitude
- 55.37839
- Longitude
- -2.76143
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1955); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55180
- National record
- record NT 50 NW 7; monument 55180
- Wikidata
- Q31104966
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