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Laird's Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3393
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3393 (3393)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stichill
- National Grid reference
- NT 6982 3897
- Latitude
- 55.64337
- Longitude
- -2.48105
- Altitude
- 175 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 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1897); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57154
- National record
- record NT 63 NE 3; monument 57154
- Wikidata
- Q31105510
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