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Linglie
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3338
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3338 (3338)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Selkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4641 2999
- Latitude
- 55.56067
- Longitude
- -2.85120
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1894); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1897); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1961); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2234
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54206
- National record
- record NT 42 NE 11; monument 54206
- Wikidata
- Q31105519
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
- RCAHMS (1957) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Selkirkshire with the fifteenth report of the Commission. HMSO: Edinburgh