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White Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3360
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3360 (3360)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 6680 0973
- Latitude
- 55.38045
- Longitude
- -2.52552
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1973); Other (1976); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56796 & 74604
- National record
- record NT 60 NE 1.1; monument 56796 & 74604
- Wikidata
- Q31105259
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