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Kirktonhill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3937
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3937 (3937)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Channelkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4704 5434
- Latitude
- 55.77951
- Longitude
- -2.84592
- Altitude
- 327 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.82 ha, 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1769); Other (1853); Other (1894); Excavation (1897); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Excavation (1922); Other (1975); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4628
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54598
- National record
- record NT 45 SE 3; monument 54598
- Wikidata
- Q31106861
Sources
References
- Allan, A (1900) History of Channelkirk. James Thin: Edinburgh
- Craw, J H (1930) 'The Roman Camp at Channelkirk, Berwickshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 64 (1929-30), 321-36
- Jones, R H. (2011) Roman Camps in Scotland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh
- 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
- Roy, W (1793) The Military Antiquities of the Romans in Britain. Society of Antiquaries of London: London