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Church Hope Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3480
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3480 (3480)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 8140 1625
- Latitude
- 55.43980
- Longitude
- -2.29554
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northeast and level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1948); Other (1960); Other (1973); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59055
- National record
- record NT 81 NW 32; monument 59055
- Wikidata
- Q31105769
Sources
References
- 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