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Easton Burn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3572
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3572 (3572)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stobo
- National Grid reference
- NT 1790 3785
- Latitude
- 55.62730
- Longitude
- -3.30545
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1964); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49811
- National record
- record NT 13 NE 10; monument 49811
- Wikidata
- Q31106140
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