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Wood Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3658
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3658 (3658)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2054 3341
- Latitude
- 55.58786
- Longitude
- -3.26225
- Altitude
- 335 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.14 ha, 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.59 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1956); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1971); Other (1974); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3056
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51350
- National record
- record NT 23 SW 1; monument 51350
- Wikidata
- Q31106492
Sources
References
- 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
- Smith, I M (1990) The archaeological background to the emergent kingdoms of the Tweed basin in the early historic period. Unpublished PhD thesis submitted to the University of Durham