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Peniel Heugh
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3376
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3376 (3376)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crailing
- National Grid reference
- NT 6535 2630
- Latitude
- 55.52923
- Longitude
- -2.55047
- Altitude
- 237 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.65 ha, 1.1 ha
- Footprint
- 1.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1958); Other (1963); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1703
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56959
- National record
- record NT 62 NE 2; monument 56959
- Wikidata
- Q31105589
Sources
References
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- 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