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Bowerhouse
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3946
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3946 (3946)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Channelkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4905 5099
- Latitude
- 55.74963
- Longitude
- -2.81325
- Altitude
- 312 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1853); Other (1894); Other (1900); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1936); Other (1952); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 365
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54584
- National record
- record NT 45 SE 17; monument 54584
- Wikidata
- Q31106871
Sources
References
- Allan, A (1900) History of Channelkirk. James Thin: Edinburgh
- 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