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Hindhope Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3413
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3413 (3413)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxnam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7681 1127
- Latitude
- 55.39487
- Longitude
- -2.36754
- Altitude
- 411 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 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (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
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1948); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1961); Other (1973); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2167
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58083
- National record
- record NT 71 SE 29; monument 58083
- Wikidata
- Q31105746
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