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Henry's Brae
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3620
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3620 (3620)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumelzier
- National Grid reference
- NT 1395 3410
- Latitude
- 55.59293
- Longitude
- -3.36699
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1967); Other (1970); Other (1972); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2985
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49913
- National record
- record NT 13 SW 22; monument 49913
- Wikidata
- Q31106260
Sources
References
- 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