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Chatto Craig
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3405
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3405 (3405)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7670 1662
- Latitude
- 55.44293
- Longitude
- -2.36985
- Altitude
- 310 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 2, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Hollow Way (North 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
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1958); Other (1979); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1692
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57959
- National record
- record NT 71 NE 43; monument 57959
- Wikidata
- Q31105668
Sources
References
- 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.
- 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