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Traquair, Chester Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3681
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3681 (3681)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Traquair
- National Grid reference
- NT 3141 3519
- Latitude
- 55.60550
- Longitude
- -3.09027
- Altitude
- 309 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.45 ha, 1.2 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1864); Other (1886); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1961); Other (1970); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2961
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53135
- National record
- record NT 33 NW 18; monument 53135
- Wikidata
- Q31106706
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