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Sweethope Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3392
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3392 (3392)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stichill
- National Grid reference
- NT 6964 3964
- Latitude
- 55.64938
- Longitude
- -2.48398
- Altitude
- 223 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.27 ha, 2.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (South east); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1894); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1897); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1963); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5741
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57153
- National record
- record NT 63 NE 2; monument 57153
- Wikidata
- Q31105609
Sources
References
- Gunn, G (1885) 'Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club at Berwick, 10th October 1894'. Hist Berwickshire Nat Club 15 (1894-5), 1-29
- 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