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Burnt Humbleton
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3493
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3493 (3493)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yetholm
- National Grid reference
- NT 8521 2804
- Latitude
- 55.54588
- Longitude
- -2.23595
- Altitude
- 327 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (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
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4668
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59263
- National record
- record NT 82 NE 85; monument 59263
- Wikidata
- Q31105919
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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