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Hunt Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3648
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3648 (3648)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2083 3847
- Latitude
- 55.63336
- Longitude
- -3.25910
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1834); Other (1856); Other (1864); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51300
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 3; monument 51300
- Wikidata
- Q31106353
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
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh