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Wormiston Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3662
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3662 (3662)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eddleston
- National Grid reference
- NT 2345 4548
- Latitude
- 55.69675
- Longitude
- -3.21946
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51423
- National record
- record NT 24 NW 3; monument 51423
- Wikidata
- Q31106432
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