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Harehope Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3631
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3631 (3631)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stobo
- National Grid reference
- NT 1963 4457
- Latitude
- 55.68796
- Longitude
- -3.27995
- Altitude
- 395 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); Passage-way/Corridor (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1961); Other (1968); Other (1974); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2677
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50039
- National record
- record NT 14 SE 16; monument 50039
- Wikidata
- Q31106324
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