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Mitchelhill Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3546
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3546 (3546)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 0628 3417
- Latitude
- 55.59215
- Longitude
- -3.48868
- Altitude
- 340 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.22 ha, 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.62 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1964); Other (1972); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3161
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48711
- National record
- record NT 03 SE 14; monument 48711
- Wikidata
- Q31106063
Sources
References
- Chambers, W (1864) A History of Peeblessire. William and Robert Chambers: Edinburgh and London
- Christison, D (1887) 'The prehistoric forts of Peeblesshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 21 (1886-7), 13-82
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh