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Stagebank
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3766
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3766 (3766)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Heriot
- National Grid reference
- NT 4132 5325
- Latitude
- 55.76905
- Longitude
- -2.93687
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 7
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.65 ha, 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North); Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North west); Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54638
- National record
- record NT 45 SW 17; monument 54638
- Wikidata
- Q31106650
Sources
References
- Welfare, H (1978) 'Jigsaw puzzle and dustbin: air photography and the Iron Age in southern Scotland'. Scot Archaeol Forum 10 (1978), 1-11