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Shaws
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3535
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3535 (3535)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkhope
- National Grid reference
- NT 3835 2097
- Latitude
- 55.47869
- Longitude
- -2.97686
- Altitude
- 266 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1950); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53088
- National record
- record NT 32 SE 4; monument 53088
- Wikidata
- Q31105893
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