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Upper Kidston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3676
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3676 (3676)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Peebles
- National Grid reference
- NT 2238 4322
- Latitude
- 55.67628
- Longitude
- -3.23583
- Altitude
- 337 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1971); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3075
- HER
- Scottish Borders 51538
- National record
- record NT 24 SW 21; monument 51538
- Wikidata
- Q31106628
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