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Caerlee
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3680
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3680 (3680)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerleithen
- National Grid reference
- NT 3247 3677
- Latitude
- 55.61985
- Longitude
- -3.07383
- Altitude
- 259 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1863); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1951); Other (1961); Other (1969); Other (1973); Other (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2785
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53172
- National record
- record NT 33 NW 7; monument 53172
- Wikidata
- Q31106686
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