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Ancrum
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3387
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3387 (3387)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ancrum
- National Grid reference
- NT 6173 2415
- Latitude
- 55.50964
- Longitude
- -2.60751
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57125
- National record
- record NT 62 SW 45; monument 57125
- Wikidata
- Q31105465
Sources