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Gallowberry Wood
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3637
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3637 (3637)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkurd
- National Grid reference
- NT 1245 4335
- Latitude
- 55.67576
- Longitude
- -3.39373
- Altitude
- 381 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 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1970); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3007
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50144
- National record
- record NT 14 SW 8; monument 50144
- Wikidata
- Q31106359
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