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Morebattle Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3420
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3420 (3420)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 7708 2388
- Latitude
- 55.50818
- Longitude
- -2.36445
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (South west); 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
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1947); Other (1960); Other (1968)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1701
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58296
- National record
- record NT 72 SE 6; monument 58296
- Wikidata
- Q31105766
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