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Heugh Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3416
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3416 (3416)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxnam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7452 1176
- Latitude
- 55.39920
- Longitude
- -2.40382
- Altitude
- 367 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
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
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989); Other (1999); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10743
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58164
- National record
- record NT 71 SW 29; monument 58164
- Wikidata
- Q31105764
Sources