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Lantonhill Craigs
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3385
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3385 (3385)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 6269 2076
- Latitude
- 55.47926
- Longitude
- -2.59186
- Altitude
- 274 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57106
- National record
- record NT 62 SW 28; monument 57106
- Wikidata
- Q31105447
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