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Janet's Brae
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3668
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3668 (3668)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2678 4043
- Latitude
- 55.65190
- Longitude
- -3.16514
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1775); Other (1856); Other (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1962); Other (1971); Other (1974); Other (1988); Other (2000); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3028
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51471
- National record
- record NT 24 SE 35; monument 51471
- Wikidata
- Q31106536
Sources
References
- Baker, L & O'Flaherty, E (2014) Archaeological Measured Survey of Janets Brae Forts, Scottish Borders, Unpublished report
- Barclay, G J (1989) 'Janet's Brae (Peebles parish), forts'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 8
- 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