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Park Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3455
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3455 (3455)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morebattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 8475 1982
- Latitude
- 55.47205
- Longitude
- -2.24275
- Altitude
- 324 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1898); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1986)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2160
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59045
- National record
- record NT 81 NW 23; monument 59045
- Wikidata
- Q31105903
Sources
References
- 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