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Horsburgh Castle
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3645
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3645 (3645)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerleithen
- National Grid reference
- NT 2852 3917
- Latitude
- 55.64084
- Longitude
- -3.13717
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1961); Other (1971); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6284
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51254
- National record
- record NT 23 NE 25; monument 51254
- Wikidata
- Q31106403
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