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Sundhope Kipp
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3481
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3481 (3481)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 8159 1679
- Latitude
- 55.44466
- Longitude
- -2.29257
- Altitude
- 419 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); Oblique (East); Simple Gap (South east); Oblique (North west); Simple Gap (North 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
- rectangular stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1938); Other (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1960); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1985); Other (1987); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1704
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59057
- National record
- record NT 81 NW 34; monument 59057
- Wikidata
- Q31105915
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