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Gilliestongues
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3369
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3369 (3369)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 6372 1659
- Latitude
- 55.44187
- Longitude
- -2.57502
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1939); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1967)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56883
- National record
- record NT 61 NW 17; monument 56883
- Wikidata
- Q31105299
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