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Quaw Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3651
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3651 (3651)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2226 3628
- Latitude
- 55.61392
- Longitude
- -3.23578
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 1, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.31 ha, 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2992
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51342
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 7; monument 51342
- Wikidata
- Q31106435
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