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The Castles
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3454
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3454 (3454)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 8288 1918
- Latitude
- 55.46619
- Longitude
- -2.27232
- Altitude
- 349 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- 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
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.31 ha, 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (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
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1884); Earthwork Survey (1897); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1958); Other (1960); Other (1968); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1691
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59032
- National record
- record NT 81 NW 11; monument 59032
- Wikidata
- Q31105880
Sources
References
- Ferguson, J (The President) (1898) 'Report of the Meetings for 1897; Kelso for Head of Bowmont Water'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 16 (1896-8),
- 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