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Ladyurd Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3632
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3632 (3632)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkurd
- National Grid reference
- NT 1526 4244
- Latitude
- 55.66808
- Longitude
- -3.34878
- Altitude
- 282 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 0.54 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1961); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50040
- National record
- record NT 14 SE 17; monument 50040
- Wikidata
- Q31106268
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