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Watherston Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3761
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3761 (3761)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stow
- National Grid reference
- NT 4357 4691
- Latitude
- 55.71236
- Longitude
- -2.89970
- Altitude
- 335 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1853); Other (1894); Other (1965)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54504
- National record
- record NT 44 NW 9; monument 54504
- Wikidata
- Q31106605
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
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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