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Craigend
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3760
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3760 (3760)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stow
- National Grid reference
- NT 4540 4567
- Latitude
- 55.70143
- Longitude
- -2.87033
- Altitude
- 265 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.68 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1853); Other (1892); Other (1894); Other (1912); Other (1913); Other (1935); Other (1954); Other (1964)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1168
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54472
- National record
- record NT 44 NE 3; monument 54472
- Wikidata
- Q31106842
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
- 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