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Shaw Craigs
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3361
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3361 (3361)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 6727 0945
- Latitude
- 55.37796
- Longitude
- -2.51807
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.87 ha, 1 ha, 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1961); Other (1976); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2152
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56807
- National record
- record NT 60 NE 2; monument 56807
- Wikidata
- Q31105530
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