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Crag Wood
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3377
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3377 (3377)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crailing
- National Grid reference
- NT 6578 2621
- Latitude
- 55.52845
- Longitude
- -2.54365
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56960
- National record
- record NT 62 NE 3; monument 56960
- Wikidata
- Q31105380
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