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Cunzierton Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3406
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3406 (3406)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxnam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7439 1750
- Latitude
- 55.45072
- Longitude
- -2.40645
- Altitude
- 336 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.85 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Hollow Way (South east); Hornwork (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1837); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Other (1885); Other (1926); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1961); Other (1968); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2170
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58009
- National record
- record NT 71 NW 12; monument 58009
- Wikidata
- Q31105686
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1928) 'Reports of meetings for 1926'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 26 (1926-8), 16-50
- 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.
- Hardy, J 1886 'Report of Meetings of Berwickshire Naturalist's Club, for the year 1885'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 11 (1885-6), 10-93
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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