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Blackchester
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3309
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3309 (3309)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bowden
- National Grid reference
- NT 5610 2736
- Latitude
- 55.53801
- Longitude
- -2.69716
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.61 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1822); 1st Identified Written Reference (1824); Other (1859); Other (1949); Other (1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55398
- National record
- record NT 52 NE 1; monument 55398
- Wikidata
- Q31105119
Sources
References
- Chalmers, G (1807-24) Caledonia, or, An account, historical and topographic, of North Britain
- 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