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Bonchester Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3294
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3294 (3294)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hobkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 5950 1170
- Latitude
- 55.39760
- Longitude
- -2.64101
- Altitude
- 323 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 6, SE 3, SW 4, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 12
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 19
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.67 ha, 1.6 ha, 2.6 ha, 3.6 ha
- Footprint
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Oblique (East); Oblique (South west); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1770); 1st Identified Written Reference (1836); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1906); Excavation (1906); Earthwork Survey (1950); Excavation (1950); Other (1961); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2173
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55300
- National record
- record NT 51 SE 10; monument 55300
- Wikidata
- Q31105276
Sources
References
- Curle, A O (1910) 'Notice of some excavation on the fort occupying the summit of Bonchester Hill, Parish of Hobkirk, Roxburghshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 44 (1909-10), 225-36
- 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.
- Piggott, C M (1952) 'Excavations at Bonchester Hill, 1950'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 84 (1949-50), 113-37
- 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