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Easter Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3325
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3325 (3325)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melrose
- National Grid reference
- NT 5690 3515
- Latitude
- 55.60807
- Longitude
- -2.68571
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1743); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1822); Other (1859); Other (1894); Excavation (1909); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2159
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55513
- National record
- record NT 53 NE 30; monument 55513
- Wikidata
- Q31105368
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
- Curle, J. (1911) A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort of Newstead in the parish of Melrose. Glasgow
- 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