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Boon Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3996
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3996 (3996)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Legerwood
- National Grid reference
- NT 5749 4654
- Latitude
- 55.71046
- Longitude
- -2.67811
- Altitude
- 326 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1955); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55793
- National record
- record NT 54 NE 12; monument 55793
- Wikidata
- Q31106773
Sources
References
- 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