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Rock Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3318
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3318 (3318)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ancrum
- National Grid reference
- NT 5959 2318
- Latitude
- 55.50075
- Longitude
- -2.64126
- Altitude
- 194 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1958); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1967); Other (1993); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55456
- National record
- record NT 52 SE 14; monument 55456
- Wikidata
- Q31105149
Sources
References
- Wood, G O (1961) 'Record of archaeological discovery in Western Roxburghshire'. Trans Hawick Archaeol Soc (1961), 9
- Wood, G O (1967) 'Field section report'. Trans Hawick Archaeol Soc (1967), 31