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Nether Oliver Craigs
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3568
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3568 (3568)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tweedsmuir
- National Grid reference
- NT 1014 2519
- Latitude
- 55.51221
- Longitude
- -3.42453
- Altitude
- 281 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1963); Other (1970); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2947
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49756
- National record
- record NT 12 NW 15; monument 49756
- Wikidata
- Q31106200
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