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Caddonlee
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3545
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3545 (3545)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Caddonfoot
- National Grid reference
- NT 4396 3551
- Latitude
- 55.60999
- Longitude
- -2.89116
- Altitude
- 193 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1894); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1965); Other (1966); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2497
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54413
- National record
- record NT 43 NW 7; monument 54413
- Wikidata
- Q31106060
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
- 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