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Easter Dawyck
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3573
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3573 (3573)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stobo
- National Grid reference
- NT 1972 3727
- Latitude
- 55.62240
- Longitude
- -3.27638
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.17 ha, 0.42 ha
- Footprint
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (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
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1970); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2950
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49812
- National record
- record NT 13 NE 11; monument 49812
- Wikidata
- Q31106211
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