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Rings Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3495
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3495 (3495)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yetholm
- National Grid reference
- NT 8372 2842
- Latitude
- 55.54924
- Longitude
- -2.25958
- Altitude
- 208 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1859); Other (1938); Other (1967); Excavation (1983); Excavation (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59274
- National record
- record NT 82 NW 14; monument 59274
- Wikidata
- Q31105819
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
- Rideout, J S (1983a) 'Rings Plantation (Yetholm p). Fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1983), 1
- Rideout, J S (1983b) 'Excavations at Rings Plantation, Yetholm, Roxburghshire, 1983'. Glasgow Archaeol J 10 (1983), 157-9
- Suddaby, I (2003) 'Rings Plantation, Kirk Yetholm (Yetholm parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 4 (2003), 117