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Moat Knowe, Buchtrig
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3411
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3411 (3411)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7784 1364
- Latitude
- 55.41620
- Longitude
- -2.35160
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 1, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North); Over-lapping (North); Hollow Way (North); Hornwork (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1946); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1973); Other (1976); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2157
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58078
- National record
- record NT 71 SE 24; monument 58078
- Wikidata
- Q31105699
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