Location
- Atlas number
- SC3663 (3663)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eddleston
- National Grid reference
- NT 2480 4595
- Latitude
- 55.70119
- Longitude
- -3.19811
- Altitude
- 339 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 5, SW 4, NW 6
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 6
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.74 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.51 ha, 0.74 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (East); Other Forms (South east); Other Forms (South west); Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Earthwork Survey (1863); Excavation (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1964); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2416
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51433
- National record
- record NT 24 NW 4; monument 51433
- Wikidata
- Q31106532
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