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Tinnis Castle
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3621
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3621 (3621)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumelzier
- National Grid reference
- NT 1415 3443
- Latitude
- 55.59602
- Longitude
- -3.36384
- Altitude
- 287 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 4, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east); Blocked (South west); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1970); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2984
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49914
- National record
- record NT 13 SW 23; monument 49914
- Wikidata
- Q31106278
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