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Castle Hill, Horsburgh Castle Farm
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3670
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3670 (3670)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerleithen
- National Grid reference
- NT 2916 4006
- Latitude
- 55.64893
- Longitude
- -3.12723
- Altitude
- 324 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1962); Earthwork Survey (1964); Other (1968); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2681
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51473
- National record
- record NT 24 SE 37; monument 51473
- Wikidata
- Q31106541
Sources
References
- 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