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Milkieston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3664
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3664 (3664)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eddleston
- National Grid reference
- NT 2415 4542
- Latitude
- 55.69632
- Longitude
- -3.20831
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); Other (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51411
- National record
- record NT 24 NW 19; monument 51411
- Wikidata
- Q31106444
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh