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Skirling Craigs
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3554
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3554 (3554)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Skirling
- National Grid reference
- NT 0866 3874
- Latitude
- 55.63365
- Longitude
- -3.45244
- Altitude
- 316 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48601
- National record
- record NT 03 NE 25; monument 48601
- Wikidata
- Q31106034
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