Location
- Atlas number
- SC3674 (3674)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2193 4283
- Latitude
- 55.67271
- Longitude
- -3.24288
- Altitude
- 427 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 4, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 3.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 2.9 ha, 3.6 ha
- Footprint
- 3.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (North east); Other Forms (South west)
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 Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1962); Other (1968); Other (1974); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 114
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51528
- National record
- record NT 24 SW 12; monument 51528
- Wikidata
- Q31106574
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