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Pirn Wood
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3679
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3679 (3679)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerleithen
- National Grid reference
- NT 3357 3726
- Latitude
- 55.62440
- Longitude
- -3.05649
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.68 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.36 ha, 0.68 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- 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 (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Other (1958); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1961); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1491
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53170
- National record
- record NT 33 NW 5; monument 53170
- Wikidata
- Q31106675
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