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Carfrae
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3934
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3934 (3934)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Channelkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4979 5466
- Latitude
- 55.78268
- Longitude
- -2.80214
- Altitude
- 302 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.49 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1826); Other (1853); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54629
- National record
- record NT 45 SE 9; monument 54629
- Wikidata
- Q31106662
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 (1909) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. First report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick. HMSO: Edinburgh.
- RCAHMS (1915) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Sixth report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick (Revised Issue). HMSO: Edinburgh