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Chester Hill, Lauder
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4001
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4001 (4001)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5261 4682
- Latitude
- 55.71252
- Longitude
- -2.75582
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1952); Other (1956); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55836
- National record
- record NT 54 NW 11; monument 55836
- Wikidata
- Q31106797
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