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Rink Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3513
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3513 (3513)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caddonfoot
- National Grid reference
- NT 4836 3308
- Latitude
- 55.58864
- Longitude
- -2.82086
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1896); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1953); Other (1961); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2260
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54450
- National record
- record NT 43 SE 9; monument 54450
- Wikidata
- Q31105971
Sources
References
- Lynn, F (1898)' A survey of the Catrail'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 32 (1897-8), 62-90
- 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