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Kirktonhill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3947
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3947 (3947)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Channelkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4717 5409
- Latitude
- 55.77729
- Longitude
- -2.84373
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1980)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 54605
- National record
- record NT 45 SE 36; monument 54605
- Wikidata
- Q31106693
Sources