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Craik Moor
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3453
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3453 (3453)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 8110 1907
- Latitude
- 55.46513
- Longitude
- -2.30047
- Altitude
- 456 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.3 ha, 0.5 ha, 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and palisade
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Other Forms (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- 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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1929); Earthwork Survey (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1962); Other (1973); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1985); Excavation (1987); Other (1987); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2156
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59085
- National record
- record NT 81 NW 6; monument 59085
- Wikidata
- Q31105868
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1931) 'Hounam Law fort'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 27 (1929-31), 218-20
- 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