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Blyth Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3626
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3626 (3626)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Linton
- National Grid reference
- NT 1245 4575
- Latitude
- 55.69732
- Longitude
- -3.39450
- Altitude
- 308 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 4, SE 1, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 0.77 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1970); Other (1972); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2990
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50031
- National record
- record NT 14 NW 9; monument 50031
- Wikidata
- Q31106304
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. London
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh