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Hayhope Knowe
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3440
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3440 (3440)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 8598 1760
- Latitude
- 55.45212
- Longitude
- -2.22321
- Altitude
- 360 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.55 ha, 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 0.74 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Other Forms (East); Other Forms (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Other (1897); Earthwork Survey (1938); Earthwork Survey (1948); Excavation (1948); Excavation (1949); Other (1957); Other (1960); Other (1968); Other (1973); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1713
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58985
- National record
- record NT 81 NE 18; monument 58985
- Wikidata
- Q31105851
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London. (p 151)
- Feachem, R W (1966) The hill-forts of northern Britain'. 59-87 in Rivet, A L F (ed) The iron age in northern Britain. Edinburgh (p 61-2)
- 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
- Piggott, C M (1949) 'The Iron Age settlement at Hayhope Knowe, Roxburghshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 45-67
- 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
- Ritchie, A (1970) 'Palisaded sites in north Britain: their context and affinities'. Scot Archaeol Forum 2 (1970), 48-67.
- Steer, K A (1949) 'The identification of palisaded enclosures from surface indications'. Appendix I in Piggott, C M (1949), 'The Iron Age settlement at Hayhope Knowe, Roxburghshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 64-7