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Wester Essenside
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3541
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3541 (3541)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ashkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4304 2086
- Latitude
- 55.47826
- Longitude
- -2.90274
- Altitude
- 350 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.92 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1860); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1962); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2191
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54336
- National record
- record NT 42 SW 5; monument 54336
- Wikidata
- Q31106013
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