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Castle Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3306
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3306 (3306)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5093 1242
- Latitude
- 55.40328
- Longitude
- -2.77643
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1948); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55395
- National record
- record NT 51 SW 7; monument 55395
- Wikidata
- Q31105111
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