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Boosmill Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3321
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3321 (3321)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lilliesleaf
- National Grid reference
- NT 5029 2346
- Latitude
- 55.50241
- Longitude
- -2.78851
- Altitude
- 215 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55474
- National record
- record NT 52 SW 1; monument 55474
- Wikidata
- Q31105173
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