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Hownam Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3401
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3401 (3401)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7904 1939
- Latitude
- 55.46792
- Longitude
- -2.33308
- Altitude
- 318 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Blocked (South); Simple Gap (South); Oblique (South west); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1938); Earthwork Survey (1948); Excavation (1948); Other (1950); Other (1962); Other (1968); Other (1976); Other (1979); Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2199
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57922
- National record
- record NT 71 NE 1; monument 57922
- Wikidata
- Q31105638
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 151)
- Geikie, J (1884) «List of hill forts, intrenched camps, etc. in Roxburghshire on the Scotch side of the Cheviots. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882_4) 139-44.
- Piggot, C M (1948) 'Hownam Rings, Roxburghshire'. Disc Exc Scot (1948). 10
- Piggott, C M (1948) 'The excavations at Hownam Rings, Roxburghshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 82 (1947-8), 193-225
- 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