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White Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3561
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3561 (3561)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 0550 3380
- Latitude
- 55.58875
- Longitude
- -3.50084
- Altitude
- 399 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.7 ha, 1.1 ha, 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- 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
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1866); Earthwork Survey (1957); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1964); Other (1968); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (2002); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2743
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48712
- National record
- record NT 03 SE 15; monument 48712
- Wikidata
- Q31106143
Sources
References
- 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