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Thirlestane
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3998
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3998 (3998)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5688 4816
- Latitude
- 55.72496
- Longitude
- -2.68807
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1956); Other (1962); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4611
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55796
- National record
- record NT 54 NE 15; monument 55796
- Wikidata
- Q31106919
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