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Southdean Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3362
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3362 (3362)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southdean
- National Grid reference
- NT 6350 0938
- Latitude
- 55.37707
- Longitude
- -2.57755
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1962); Other (1967); Other (1976); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2211
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56826
- National record
- record NT 60 NW 2; monument 56826
- Wikidata
- Q31105549
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Geikie, J (1884) «List of hill forts, intrenched camps, etc. in Roxburghshire on the Scotch side of the Cheviots. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882_4) 139-44
- 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