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Court Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3289
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3289 (3289)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hawick
- National Grid reference
- NT 5195 1690
- Latitude
- 55.44364
- Longitude
- -2.76110
- Altitude
- 179 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.52 ha, 1.1 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (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
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1963); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55255
- National record
- record NT 51 NW 13; monument 55255
- Wikidata
- Q31105047
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