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Green Humbleton
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3496
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3496 (3496)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yetholm
- National Grid reference
- NT 8456 2764
- Latitude
- 55.54226
- Longitude
- -2.24623
- Altitude
- 287 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 0.83 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1938); Other (1958); Other (1967)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1694
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59283
- National record
- record NT 82 NW 22; monument 59283
- Wikidata
- Q31105921
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