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Linton Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3417
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3417 (3417)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Linton
- National Grid reference
- NT 7875 2797
- Latitude
- 55.54501
- Longitude
- -2.33832
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Excavation (2004)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58177
- National record
- record NT 72 NE 1; monument 58177
- Wikidata
- Q31105680
Sources
References
- Kirby, M (2004) 'Linton Hill, Kirk Yetholm (Linton parish), watching brief'. Disc Exc Scot 5, New Ser (2004), 115
- 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