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Muirburn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3563
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3563 (3563)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Skirling
- National Grid reference
- NT 0908 4122
- Latitude
- 55.65601
- Longitude
- -3.44659
- Altitude
- 344 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 0.73 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3142
- HER
- Scottish Borders 48929
- National record
- record NT 04 SE 20; monument 48929
- Wikidata
- Q31106149
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