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Clerklands
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3509
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3509 (3509)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4983 2456
- Latitude
- 55.51225
- Longitude
- -2.79600
- Altitude
- 234 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.59 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1962); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2223
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54318
- National record
- record NT 42 SE 2; monument 54318
- Wikidata
- Q31105958
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1957) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Selkirkshire with the fifteenth report of the Commission. HMSO: Edinburgh