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Hammer Knowe
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3570
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3570 (3570)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stobo
- National Grid reference
- NT 1528 3866
- Latitude
- 55.63413
- Longitude
- -3.34729
- Altitude
- 383 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- 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 (1955); Earthwork Survey (1962); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3094
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49843
- National record
- record NT 13 NE 4; monument 49843
- Wikidata
- Q31106204
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