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Janet's Brae
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3672
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3672 (3672)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2658 4039
- Latitude
- 55.65151
- Longitude
- -3.16831
- Altitude
- 270 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1863); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1971); Other (1974); Other (1988); Other (2000); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3029
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51475
- National record
- record NT 24 SE 39; monument 51475
- Wikidata
- Q31106545
Sources
References
- Barclay, G J (1989) 'Janet's Brae (Peebles parish), forts'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 8
- Baker, L & O'Flaherty, E (2014) Archaeological Measured Survey of Janets Brae Forts, Scottish Borders, Unpublished report.Chambers, W (1864) A History of Peeblesshire.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