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Legerwood Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4002
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4002 (4002)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Legerwood
- National Grid reference
- NT 5846 4217
- Latitude
- 55.67128
- Longitude
- -2.66201
- Altitude
- 262 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1826); Other (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Other (1912); Other (1955); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55927
- National record
- record NT 54 SE 3; monument 55927
- Wikidata
- Q31106800
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