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Hamildean Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3628
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3628 (3628)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lyne
- National Grid reference
- NT 1870 4197
- Latitude
- 55.66445
- Longitude
- -3.29397
- Altitude
- 386 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
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 (1775); Other (1856); Other (1863); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1970); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2957
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50071
- National record
- record NT 14 SE 5; monument 50071
- Wikidata
- Q31106319
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
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh