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Adderston Lee
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3307
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3307 (3307)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5237 1153
- Latitude
- 55.39543
- Longitude
- -2.75354
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.53 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- east and level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1933); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55342
- National record
- record NT 51 SW 16; monument 55342
- Wikidata
- Q31105116
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