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Newhouses
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3291
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3291 (3291)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hawick
- National Grid reference
- NT 5170 1829
- Latitude
- 55.45610
- Longitude
- -2.76530
- Altitude
- 228 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 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55260
- National record
- record NT 51 NW 18; monument 55260
- Wikidata
- Q31105057
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