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South Minto Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3313
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3313 (3313)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Minto
- National Grid reference
- NT 5592 2064
- Latitude
- 55.47761
- Longitude
- -2.69895
- Altitude
- 276 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
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 Written Reference (1948); Other (1965); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55470
- National record
- record NT 52 SE 6; monument 55470
- Wikidata
- Q31105140
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