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Corsehope Rings, Mid Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3724
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3724 (3724)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Heriot
- National Grid reference
- NT 3925 5190
- Latitude
- 55.75667
- Longitude
- -2.96955
- Altitude
- 404 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.83 ha
- Footprint
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1853); Earthwork Survey (1879); Excavation (1879); Other (1892); Other (1913); Earthwork Survey (1915); Other (1924); Earthwork Survey (1948); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1962); Other (1970); O
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1166
- HER
- Scottish Borders 53304
- National record
- record NT 35 SE 6; monument 53304
- Wikidata
- Q31106839
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Galloway, W (1880) 'Notice of a camp on the Midhill-Head, on the estate of Borthwick Hall, in the parish of Heriot, Midlothian, the property of D. J. Macfie, Esq'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 14 (1879_80), 254_60
- Halliday, S (2013) 'I Walked, I Saw, I Surveyed, but what did I see?... and what did I survey'. 65-77 in Opitz, R S and Cowley, D C (eds) Interpreting Archaeological Topography - Airborne Laser Scanning, 3D Data and Ground Observation. Oxbow: Oxford
- RCAHMS (1929) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Tenth report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the Counties of Midlothian and West Lothian. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Stevenson, R B K (1949) 'Braidwood fort, Midlothian: the exploration of two huts'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948_9), 1_11