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Ednam Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3435
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3435 (3435)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ednam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7455 3749
- Latitude
- 55.63034
- Longitude
- -2.40576
- Altitude
- 84 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); Other (1949); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58386
- National record
- record NT 73 NW 8; monument 58386
- Wikidata
- Q31105719
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