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Overhowden
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3941
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3941 (3941)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Channelkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4858 5209
- Latitude
- 55.75946
- Longitude
- -2.82094
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.42 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1897); 1st Identified Written Reference (1897); Other (1909); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1952); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54579
- National record
- record NT 45 SE 12; monument 54579
- Wikidata
- Q31106678
Sources
References
- Allan, A (1900) History of Channelkirk. James Thin: 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