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Chester Hill, Hundleshope
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3655
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3655 (3655)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2368 3606
- Latitude
- 55.61217
- Longitude
- -3.21318
- Altitude
- 313 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.11 ha, 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1834); Other (1855); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1939); Excavation (1939); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1970); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2991
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51286
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 17; monument 51286
- Wikidata
- Q31106482
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
- Keef, P A M (1946) 'Excavations at Chester Hill Fort, Hundleshope, in Manor Parish, 1939'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 80 (1945-6), 66-73
- 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