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Camp Law Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3640
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3640 (3640)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2692 3821
- Latitude
- 55.63198
- Longitude
- -3.16232
- Altitude
- 314 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 4, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.24 ha, 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1970); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2953
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51259
- National record
- record NT 23 NE 3; monument 51259
- Wikidata
- Q31106364
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