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Castlecraig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3636
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3636 (3636)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkurd
- National Grid reference
- NT 1382 4430
- Latitude
- 55.68454
- Longitude
- -3.37225
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50121
- National record
- record NT 14 SW 5; monument 50121
- Wikidata
- Q31106296
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh