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Colifort Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3308
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3308 (3308)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cavers
- National Grid reference
- NT 5106 1150
- Latitude
- 55.39503
- Longitude
- -2.77422
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1948); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55344
- National record
- record NT 51 SW 18; monument 55344
- Wikidata
- Q31105117
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