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Halltree Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3764
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3764 (3764)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stow
- National Grid reference
- NT 4005 5188
- Latitude
- 55.75659
- Longitude
- -2.95680
- Altitude
- 373 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Footprint
- 0.76 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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 (1755); Other (1773); Other (1853); Other (1882); Other (1894); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1924); Other (1954); Other (1975); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1170
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54652
- National record
- record NT 45 SW 4; monument 54652
- Wikidata
- Q31106845
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
- 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