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Torwoodlee
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3542
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3542 (3542)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caddonfoot
- National Grid reference
- NT 4655 3847
- Latitude
- 55.63687
- Longitude
- -2.85063
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and human bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Excavation (1891); Earthwork Survey (1891); Other (1894); Excavation (1950); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1961); Other (1964); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2448
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54353
- National record
- record NT 43 NE 2; monument 54353
- Wikidata
- Q31106023
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- Curle, J (1892) 'Notes on two brochs recently discovered at Bow, Midlothian, and Torwoodlee, Selkirkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 26 (1891-2), 71-84
- Feachem, R W (1977) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 154-5)
- Piggott, S (1951) 'Excavations in the broch and hill-fort of Torwoodlee, Selkirkshire, 1950'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 85 (1950-1), 92-117
- 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