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Whiteside Rig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3567
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3567 (3567)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tweedsmuir
- National Grid reference
- NT 1126 2491
- Latitude
- 55.50993
- Longitude
- -3.40666
- Altitude
- 407 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1886); Other (1897); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3467
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49754
- National record
- record NT 12 NW 13; monument 49754
- Wikidata
- Q31106196
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