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Hallmanor
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3660
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3660 (3660)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Manor
- National Grid reference
- NT 2015 3472
- Latitude
- 55.59956
- Longitude
- -3.26882
- Altitude
- 305 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 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1888); Earthwork Survey (1962); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1970); Other (1974); Other (1981)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2952
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51372
- National record
- record NT 23 SW 3; monument 51372
- Wikidata
- Q31106515
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1888) 'Notice of ancient remains in Manor Parish and other Districts of Peeblesshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 22 (1887-8), 192-207
- 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 Unpublished PhD thesis submitted to the University of Durham