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Torquhan
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3759
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3759 (3759)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stow
- National Grid reference
- NT 4535 4777
- Latitude
- 55.72029
- Longitude
- -2.87154
- Altitude
- 356 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.81 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1913); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1964); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54471
- National record
- record NT 44 NE 2; monument 54471
- Wikidata
- Q31106587
Sources
References
- 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