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Bonchester Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3293
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3293 (3293)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hobkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 5960 1205
- Latitude
- 55.40075
- Longitude
- -2.63948
- Altitude
- 286 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1770); 1st Identified Written Reference (1836); Other (1858); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1961); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2172
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55333
- National record
- record NT 51 SE 8; monument 55333
- Wikidata
- Q31105271
Sources
References
- Geikie, J (1884) «List of hill forts, intrenched camps, etc. in Roxburghshire on the Scotch side of the Cheviots. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882_4) 139-44
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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