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Riddell
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3322
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3322 (3322)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lilliesleaf
- National Grid reference
- NT 5242 2438
- Latitude
- 55.51089
- Longitude
- -2.75496
- Altitude
- 154 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.62 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.26 ha, 0.29 ha, 0.62 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55487
- National record
- record NT 52 SW 7; monument 55487
- Wikidata
- Q31105179
Sources
References
- Welfare, H (1980) 'Jigsaw puzzle and dustbin: air photography and the Iron Age in southern Scotland'. Scot Archaeol Forum 10 (1978), 1-11