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Cauldshiels Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3549
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3549 (3549)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Galashiels
- National Grid reference
- NT 5155 3165
- Latitude
- 55.57612
- Longitude
- -2.77001
- Altitude
- 329 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.74 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Investigations
- Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1894); Earthwork Survey (1934); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1961); Geophysical Survey (1991); Excavation (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1725
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55715
- National record
- record NT 53 SW 1; monument 55715
- Wikidata
- Q31106075
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
- Jones, R F J (1991) 'The Newstead project'. Univ Bradford Archaeol Sci Annu Rep, 1990-1, 5th annual report, p 15
- 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