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The Whaum
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3652
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3652 (3652)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2354 3794
- Latitude
- 55.62903
- Longitude
- -3.21592
- Altitude
- 325 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3045
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51279
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 10; monument 51279
- Wikidata
- Q31106452
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