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South Berryfell
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3281
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3281 (3281)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5204 0683
- Latitude
- 55.35317
- Longitude
- -2.75795
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1942); Earthwork Survey (1951); Other (1965); Other (1974); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3412
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55152
- National record
- record NT 50 NW 14; monument 55152
- Wikidata
- Q31105249
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