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Morebattle
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3418
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3418 (3418)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 7805 2525
- Latitude
- 55.52054
- Longitude
- -2.34920
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 4, SW 4, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1950); Other (1967); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58190
- National record
- record NT 72 NE 20; monument 58190
- Wikidata
- Q31105683
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