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Lady Blair Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3644
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3644 (3644)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2594 3720
- Latitude
- 55.62276
- Longitude
- -3.17761
- Altitude
- 367 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.12 ha, 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and unfinished work
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1970); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2963
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51243
- National record
- record NT 23 NE 15; monument 51243
- Wikidata
- Q31106397
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