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Scraesburgh
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3366
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3366 (3366)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 6790 1915
- Latitude
- 55.46516
- Longitude
- -2.50924
- Altitude
- 200 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1964); Other (1967); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2405
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56842
- National record
- record NT 61 NE 1; monument 56842
- Wikidata
- Q31105568
Sources
References
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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