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Rowchester, Kippilaw Mains
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3310
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3310 (3310)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bowden
- National Grid reference
- NT 5476 2906
- Latitude
- 55.55322
- Longitude
- -2.71863
- Altitude
- 197 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.77 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1824); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1894); Other (1945); Other (1961); Excavation (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55446
- National record
- record NT 52 NW 5; monument 55446
- Wikidata
- Q31105124
Sources
References
- Chalmers, G (1807-24) Caledonia, or, An account, historical and topographic, of North Britain
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- Gooder, J (2000) 'Rowchester, Scottish Borders (Bowden parish), watching brief; evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot 1, New Ser (2000), 74
- 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