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Knowe Kniffling
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3560
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3560 (3560)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 0816 3323
- Latitude
- 55.58406
- Longitude
- -3.45854
- Altitude
- 406 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.19 ha, 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.67 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1964); Other (1968); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2740
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48735
- National record
- record NT 03 SE 5; monument 48735
- Wikidata
- Q31106130
Sources
References
- Chambers, W (1864) A History of Peeblessire. William and Robert Chambers: Edinburgh and London
- Christison, D (1887) 'The prehistoric forts of Peeblesshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 21 (1886-7), 13-82
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh