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Lochurd
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3638
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3638 (3638)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirkurd
- National Grid reference
- NT 1169 4296
- Latitude
- 55.67212
- Longitude
- -3.40568
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 50145
- National record
- record NT 14 SW 9; monument 50145
- Wikidata
- Q31106300
Sources
References
- Chambers, W (1864) A History of Peeblesshire. 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