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Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3407
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3407 (3407)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxnam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7195 1585
- Latitude
- 55.43576
- Longitude
- -2.44486
- Altitude
- 287 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.54 ha, 0.88 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1960); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1699
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58019
- National record
- record NT 71 NW 21; monument 58019
- Wikidata
- Q31105687
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