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Stanhope
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3564
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3564 (3564)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumelzier
- National Grid reference
- NT 1200 2950
- Latitude
- 55.55131
- Longitude
- -3.39637
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.18 ha, 0.88 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1881); Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1963); Other (1968); Other (1972); Other (1989); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2675
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49788
- National record
- record NT 12 NW 5; monument 49788
- Wikidata
- Q31106158
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
- Smith, J A (1881) 'Notice of a massive bronze "late Celtic" armlet and two small objects of bronze (horse-trappings), found with a Roman bronze patella, at Stanhope, Peeblesshire, in 1876; with an account of other bronze armlets found in Scotland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 15 (1880-1), 316-55