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Huntfold Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3414
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3414 (3414)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7963 1472
- Latitude
- 55.42599
- Longitude
- -2.32340
- Altitude
- 345 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 4, SW 3, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Oblique (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1983); Other (1993); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2165
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58091
- National record
- record NT 71 SE 36; monument 58091
- Wikidata
- Q31105758
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