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Camp Plantations, Craigsford
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3324
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3324 (3324)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melrose
- National Grid reference
- NT 5634 3781
- Latitude
- 55.63192
- Longitude
- -2.69502
- Altitude
- 187 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1743); Other (1894); Other (1947); Other (1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55505
- National record
- record NT 53 NE 23; monument 55505
- Wikidata
- Q31105186
Sources
References
- 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
- Milne, A (1743) Description of the parish of Melrose; in answer to Mr. Maitland's queries, sent to each parish of the Kingdom
- 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