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North Synton
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3539
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3539 (3539)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4830 2390
- Latitude
- 55.50616
- Longitude
- -2.82010
- Altitude
- 233 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.25 ha, 0.65 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); Other (1963); Other (1965); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2273
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54308
- National record
- record NT 42 SE 10; monument 54308
- Wikidata
- Q31105994
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