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Camp Tops
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3438
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3438 (3438)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 8602 1801
- Latitude
- 55.45585
- Longitude
- -2.22257
- Altitude
- 372 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 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (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
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1859); Other (1884); Other (1897); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1949); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1968); Other (1973); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (1987); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2106
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59026
- National record
- record NT 81 NE 8; monument 59026
- Wikidata
- Q31105837
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
- Lynn, F (1898) 'The heads of Bowmont Water'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 16 (1896-8), 185-200
- 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