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Rachan Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3619
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3619 (3619)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- National Grid reference
- NT 1208 3398
- Latitude
- 55.59152
- Longitude
- -3.39661
- Altitude
- 316 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.41 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1964); Other (1972); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49911
- National record
- record NT 13 SW 20; monument 49911
- Wikidata
- Q31106185
Sources
References
- Armstrong, M J (1775) A Companion to the Map of the County of Peebles, or Tweedale. Edinburgh
- 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