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Edston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3649
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3649 (3649)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2270 3978
- Latitude
- 55.64543
- Longitude
- -3.22978
- Altitude
- 243 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); Other (1961); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51311
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 4; monument 51311
- Wikidata
- Q31106355
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