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Sunderland Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3548
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3548 (3548)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Selkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4700 3192
- Latitude
- 55.57807
- Longitude
- -2.84222
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1894); Other (1897); Other (1950); Other (1961)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2146
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54418
- National record
- record NT 43 SE 11; monument 54418
- Wikidata
- Q31106071
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