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Manor Sware
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3656
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3656 (3656)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2358 3948
- Latitude
- 55.64287
- Longitude
- -3.21571
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1962); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51309
- National record
- record NT 23 NW 38; monument 51309
- Wikidata
- Q31106399
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