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Cakemuir Burn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3722
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3722 (3722)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Heriot
- National Grid reference
- NT 3980 5652
- Latitude
- 55.79826
- Longitude
- -2.96181
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53247
- National record
- record NT 35 NE 17; monument 53247
- Wikidata
- Q31106564
Sources