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Hodge Cairn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3765
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3765 (3765)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stow
- National Grid reference
- NT 4190 5140
- Latitude
- 55.75250
- Longitude
- -2.92723
- Altitude
- 292 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.69 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1821); Other (1853); Other (1894); Other (1913); Other (1935); Other (1954); Other (1965); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1171
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54654
- National record
- record NT 45 SW 6; monument 54654
- Wikidata
- Q31106849
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