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Kings Meadows
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3639
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3639 (3639)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2582 3956
- Latitude
- 55.64394
- Longitude
- -3.18016
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 3, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1961); Other (1974); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51237
- National record
- record NT 23 NE 1; monument 51237
- Wikidata
- Q31106303
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