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Kirkton Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3302
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3302 (3302)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5367 1237
- Latitude
- 55.40310
- Longitude
- -2.73316
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
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
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1861); Earthwork Survey (1898); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1958)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1700
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55335
- National record
- record NT 51 SW 1; monument 55335
- Wikidata
- Q31105279
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh
- Murray, J A H (1861) 'On the camp at Kirkton Hill'. Minute Book Hawick Archaeol Soc, 1861, Plan and TS. copy in Wilton Lodge Museum
- 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