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Castle Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3382
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3382 (3382)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ancrum
- National Grid reference
- NT 6241 2491
- Latitude
- 55.51652
- Longitude
- -2.59685
- Altitude
- 107 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 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1960); Other (1967); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1712
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57086
- National record
- record NT 62 SW 1; monument 57086
- Wikidata
- Q31105599
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