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Newstead
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3328
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3328 (3328)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melrose
- National Grid reference
- NT 5691 3368
- Latitude
- 55.59491
- Longitude
- -2.68526
- Altitude
- 143 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); Excavation (1990); Geophysical Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- Within Newstead
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55709
- National record
- record NT 53 SE 95; monument 55709
- Wikidata
- Q31105201
Sources
References
- Frere, S S (1991) 'Roman Britain in 1990. I Sites explored'. Britannia 22 (1991)
- 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
- Wise, A L (1995) 'Red Rig (Melrose parish), enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 6