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Quarter Wood Side
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3618
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3618 (3618)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 1006 3393
- Latitude
- 55.59070
- Longitude
- -3.42864
- Altitude
- 330 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.54 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1957); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49921
- National record
- record NT 13 SW 3; monument 49921
- Wikidata
- Q31106174
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