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Cademuir Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3653
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3653 (3653)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2247 3708
- Latitude
- 55.62114
- Longitude
- -3.23267
- Altitude
- 356 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 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.64 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise, annex, and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (West)
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
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1964); Other (1971); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2715
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51281
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 12; monument 51281
- Wikidata
- Q31106454
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
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99