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Woodhouse Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3650
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3650 (3650)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2089 3731
- Latitude
- 55.62295
- Longitude
- -3.25782
- Altitude
- 343 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 4, NW 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.15 ha, 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Oblique (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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3051
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51333
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 6; monument 51333
- Wikidata
- Q31106429
Sources
References
- 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