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Black Hill, Earlston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3987
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3987 (3987)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Earlston
- National Grid reference
- NT 5859 3702
- Latitude
- 55.62502
- Longitude
- -2.65916
- Altitude
- 314 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 7
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 4, SW 7, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.35 ha, 0.48 ha, 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1831); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1866); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1923); Other (1961); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4463
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55534
- National record
- record NT 53 NE 5; monument 55534
- Wikidata
- Q31106885
Sources
References
- 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
- Hibbert, S (1857) 'Observations on the Theories which have been proposed to explain the Vitrified Forts of Scotland'. Archaeologia Scotica 4 (1857), 160-82
- Tait, J (1868) 'Earlstoun'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 5 (1863-8), 261-9
- 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