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Parkgatestone Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3553
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3553 (3553)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 0829 3529
- Latitude
- 55.60259
- Longitude
- -3.45716
- Altitude
- 325 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1971); Other (1972); Other (1979); Other (2000); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3032
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48600
- National record
- record NT 03 NE 24; monument 48600
- Wikidata
- Q31106110
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