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Dreva Craig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3577
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3577 (3577)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stobo
- National Grid reference
- NT 1267 3533
- Latitude
- 55.60376
- Longitude
- -3.38768
- Altitude
- 276 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 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.18 ha, 0.64 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Over-lapping (North); Oblique (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1964); Other (1969); Other (1974); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2895
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49881
- National record
- record NT 13 NW 8; monument 49881
- Wikidata
- Q31106230
Sources
References
- Chambers, W (1864) A History of Peeblessire. William and Robert Chambers: Edinburgh and London
- 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