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Cardrona
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3678
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3678 (3678)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Traquair
- National Grid reference
- NT 3020 3727
- Latitude
- 55.62402
- Longitude
- -3.11000
- Altitude
- 328 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.53 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.53 ha
- Footprint
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1886); Other (1894); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1961); Other (1970); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2954
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53148
- National record
- record NT 33 NW 3; monument 53148
- Wikidata
- Q31106640
Sources
References
- Baker, L & O'Flaherty, E (2014) Archaeological Measured Survey of Castle Knowe Fort, Scottish Borders, Unpublished report. Rubicon Heritage Services
- 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
- Wilson, J et al (1894) Excursions of the Innerleithen Alpine Club, 1889-94, 21-4