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Kingledoors
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3552
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3552 (3552)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumelzier
- National Grid reference
- NT 0918 2742
- Latitude
- 55.53206
- Longitude
- -3.44045
- Altitude
- 298 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.9 ha
- Footprint
- 0.31 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1971); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3084
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48511
- National record
- record NT 02 NE 2; monument 48511
- Wikidata
- Q31106097
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