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Chester Rig, Glen
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3657
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3657 (3657)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Traquair
- National Grid reference
- NT 2895 3245
- Latitude
- 55.58053
- Longitude
- -3.12860
- Altitude
- 373 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1855); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Other (1962); Earthwork Survey (1963); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51347
- National record
- record NT 23 SE 2; monument 51347
- Wikidata
- Q31106400
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