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Huntshaw
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3949
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3949 (3949)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Earlston
- National Grid reference
- NT 5745 3995
- Latitude
- 55.65125
- Longitude
- -2.67772
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.5 ha, 1 ha, 2.5 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1870); 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); Other (1956); Other (1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55490
- National record
- record NT 53 NE 1; monument 55490
- Wikidata
- Q31106699
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1921) 'Notes on Berwickshire Forts, with a description of those recently discovered'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 55 (1920-1), 231-55
- Stevenson, R B K (1955) 'Native bangles and Roman glass'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 88 (1953-5), 208-21