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Tor Hill, Torbank
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3629
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3629 (3629)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stobo
- National Grid reference
- NT 1752 4091
- Latitude
- 55.65473
- Longitude
- -3.31240
- Altitude
- 328 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.38 ha, 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1961); Other (1971); Other (1975); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3027
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50072
- National record
- record NT 14 SE 6; monument 50072
- Wikidata
- Q31106321
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