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Campknowe Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3537
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3537 (3537)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4820 2194
- Latitude
- 55.48854
- Longitude
- -2.82131
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1993); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2140
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54329
- National record
- record NT 42 SE 9; monument 54329
- Wikidata
- Q31105990
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