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White Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3492
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3492 (3492)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yetholm
- National Grid reference
- NT 8522 2617
- Latitude
- 55.52907
- Longitude
- -2.23569
- Altitude
- 410 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (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
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59255
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 78; monument 59255
- Wikidata
- Q31105793
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