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Henderland Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3625
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3625 (3625)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newlands
- National Grid reference
- NT 1496 4597
- Latitude
- 55.69974
- Longitude
- -3.35464
- Altitude
- 319 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.77 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1964); Other (1969); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2840
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50030
- National record
- record NT 14 NW 8; monument 50030
- Wikidata
- Q31106297
Sources
References
- Chambers, W (1864) A History of Peeblesshire. 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. London
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh