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Whiteside Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3623
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3623 (3623)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newlands
- National Grid reference
- NT 1680 4607
- Latitude
- 55.70096
- Longitude
- -3.32540
- Altitude
- 368 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (North east); Blocked (North east); Simple Gap (East); Over-lapping (West); Oblique (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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1964); Other (1970); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2955
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49989
- National record
- record NT 14 NE 7; monument 49989
- Wikidata
- Q31106292
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
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. LondonRCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh