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Lindean
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3547
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3547 (3547)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Galashiels
- National Grid reference
- NT 4866 3087
- Latitude
- 55.56882
- Longitude
- -2.81569
- Altitude
- 158 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1949); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1963)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2295
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54417
- National record
- record NT 43 SE 10; monument 54417
- Wikidata
- Q31106065
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