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South Berryfell
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3280
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3280 (3280)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5250 0703
- Latitude
- 55.35501
- Longitude
- -2.75073
- Altitude
- 255 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.66 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and heather moorland
- Water source
- flush
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3396
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55149
- National record
- record NT 50 NW 11; monument 55149
- Wikidata
- Q31105209
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