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Rough Side
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3550
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3550 (3550)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 0927 3351
- Latitude
- 55.58678
- Longitude
- -3.44103
- Altitude
- 365 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 876
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48734
- National record
- record NT 03 SE 4; monument 48734
- Wikidata
- Q31106083
Sources
References
- Hill, P H (1985) 'Rough Side (Broughton, Glenholm and Kilbucho p), hilltop settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1985), 3
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh