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Dunion Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3368
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3368 (3368)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bedrule
- National Grid reference
- NT 6255 1906
- Latitude
- 55.46397
- Longitude
- -2.59384
- Altitude
- 333 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 8
- Enclosed area
- 6.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.9 ha, 6.5 ha
- Footprint
- 6.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 50–400, and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1898); Other (1933); Earthwork Survey (1939); Earthwork Survey (1961); Excavation (1961); Excavation (1962); Excavation (1984); Excavation (1985); Excavation (1986); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56897
- National record
- record NT 61 NW 3; monument 56897
- Wikidata
- Q31105288
Sources
References
- MoW (1962) Excavations Annual Report 1961. DoE: Basingstoke
- Proudfoot, E V W (1962) The Dunion, Jedburgh, Rox'. Disc Excav Scot (1962), 56
- 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
- Rideout, J S (1984) Dunion Hill (Bedrule p). Fort, houses, walls'. Disc Exc Scot (1984), 2
- Rideout, J S (1985) 'Dunion Hill (Bedrule p) Fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1985), 2-3
- Rideout, J S (1985) 'Dunion Hill (Bedrule p) Fort, Quern, Stone Axe'. Disc Exc Scot (1986), 2-3
- Rideout, J S (1992) 'The Dunion, Roxburgh, Borders'. 73-119 in Rideout, JS, Owen, O A and Halpin, E (1992) Hillforts of southern Scotland. Monograph 1. AOC Scotland Ltd and Historic Scotland: Edinburgh