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Whitelaw Rig
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3646
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3646 (3646)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2112 3537
- Latitude
- 55.60556
- Longitude
- -3.25361
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1971); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2959
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51278
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 1; monument 51278
- Wikidata
- Q31106407
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