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Meldon Burn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3675
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3675 (3675)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2140 4290
- Latitude
- 55.67325
- Longitude
- -3.25132
- Altitude
- 251 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 0.53 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3165
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51531
- National record
- record NT 24 SW 15; monument 51531
- Wikidata
- Q31106596
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