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Huntlyburn House
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3333
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3333 (3333)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Melrose
- National Grid reference
- NT 5241 3355
- Latitude
- 55.59328
- Longitude
- -2.75670
- Altitude
- 157 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
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 (1948); Other (1949); Other (1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55716
- National record
- record NT 53 SW 10; monument 55716
- Wikidata
- Q31105227
Sources
References
- 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