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Littledean Fort
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3397
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3397 (3397)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Maxton
- National Grid reference
- NT 6324 3129
- Latitude
- 55.57391
- Longitude
- -2.58456
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 4, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1982); Geophysical Survey (1993); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5999
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57266
- National record
- record NT 63 SW 51; monument 57266
- Wikidata
- Q31105628
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