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Oliver Castle
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3551
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3551 (3551)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tweedsmuir
- National Grid reference
- NT 0995 2506
- Latitude
- 55.51101
- Longitude
- -3.42749
- Altitude
- 297 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1971); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3144
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48510
- National record
- record NT 02 NE 1; monument 48510
- Wikidata
- Q31106088
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh