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Ven Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3666
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3666 (3666)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2584 4118
- Latitude
- 55.65850
- Longitude
- -3.18028
- Altitude
- 325 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1886); Other (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51461
- National record
- record NT 24 SE 25; monument 51461
- Wikidata
- Q31106451
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1887) 'The prehistoric forts of Peeblesshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 21 (1886-7), 13-82