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West Bold
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3677
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3677 (3677)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Traquair
- National Grid reference
- NT 3640 3590
- Latitude
- 55.61256
- Longitude
- -3.01124
- Altitude
- 285 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- 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 Map Depiction (1775); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1961); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53108
- National record
- record NT 33 NE 18; monument 53108
- Wikidata
- Q31106530
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