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Kirkton Schoolhouse
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3304
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3304 (3304)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5338 1432
- Latitude
- 55.42059
- Longitude
- -2.73807
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 4, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.52 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.25 ha, 0.52 ha
- Footprint
- 0.54 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55379
- National record
- record NT 51 SW 5; monument 55379
- Wikidata
- Q31105101
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