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Thirlestane Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3994
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3994 (3994)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5705 4845
- Latitude
- 55.72758
- Longitude
- -2.68541
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.52 ha
- Footprint
- 0.91 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1859); Other (1883); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1952); Other (1955); Other (1962); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4612
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55823
- National record
- record NT 54 NE 4; monument 55823
- Wikidata
- Q31106898
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
- 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
- Tait, J (1884) 'On the Black Dyke and some British camps in the west of Berwickshire'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882-4), 307-12