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Tamshiel Rig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3365
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3365 (3365)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southdean
- National Grid reference
- NT 6429 0623
- Latitude
- 55.34882
- Longitude
- -2.56468
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1976); Other (1990); Other (1994); Other (1996); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10605
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56832
- National record
- record NT 60 NW 5; monument 56832
- Wikidata
- Q31105557
Sources
References
- Cressey, M (1996) 'Tamshiel Rig (Southdean parish), fort, settlement and field system'. Disc Exc Scot (1996), 90-1, fig 28
- Dent, J (1994) 'Tamshiel Rig (Southdean parish): quern'. Disc Exc Scot (1994), 6
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- NMS (1996) 'Tamshiel Rig (Southdean parish), rotary quern fragment'. Disc Exc Scot (1996), 91
- 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