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Kittlegairy Burn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3667
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3667 (3667)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2749 4206
- Latitude
- 55.66665
- Longitude
- -3.15429
- Altitude
- 351 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.14 ha, 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1962); Other (1971); Other (1974); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3040
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51469
- National record
- record NT 24 SE 33; monument 51469
- Wikidata
- Q31106534
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