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Castlestead, Kaeside
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3331
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3331 (3331)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melrose
- National Grid reference
- NT 5176 3410
- Latitude
- 55.59823
- Longitude
- -2.76706
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1743); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1894); Other (1945); Other (1948); Other (1977); Geophysical Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55788
- National record
- record NT 53 SW 8; monument 55788
- Wikidata
- Q31105218
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
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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) 'Kaeside (Melrose parish), fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 6