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Blackbrough Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3479
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3479 (3479)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 8086 1771
- Latitude
- 55.45295
- Longitude
- -2.30417
- Altitude
- 420 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.43 ha, 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Out-turned (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- 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 (1897); Earthwork Survey (1938); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1960); Other (1961); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1985); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2166
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59050
- National record
- record NT 81 NW 28; monument 59050
- Wikidata
- Q31105911
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