Location
- Atlas number
- SC3673 (3673)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lyne
- National Grid reference
- NT 2063 4251
- Latitude
- 55.66962
- Longitude
- -3.26345
- Altitude
- 407 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Oblique (South); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1968); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2703
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51547
- National record
- record NT 24 SW 3; monument 51547
- Wikidata
- Q31106555
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh