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Waddenshope
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3643
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3643 (3643)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2673 3680
- Latitude
- 55.61928
- Longitude
- -3.16497
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.16 ha, 0.49 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1961); Other (1971); Other (1974); Other (2016)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3060
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51242
- National record
- record NT 23 NE 14; monument 51242
- Wikidata
- Q31106394
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