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Stanshiel Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3410
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3410 (3410)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7805 1334
- Latitude
- 55.41352
- Longitude
- -2.34825
- Altitude
- 375 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.52 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1976); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58077
- National record
- record NT 71 SE 23; monument 58077
- Wikidata
- Q31105611
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