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Birkenside Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4003
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4003 (4003)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Legerwood
- National Grid reference
- NT 5691 4097
- Latitude
- 55.66036
- Longitude
- -2.68632
- Altitude
- 236 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.86 ha
- Footprint
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1826); Other (1857); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1910); Other (1955); Other (1962); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55938
- National record
- record NT 54 SE 4; monument 55938
- Wikidata
- Q31106808
Sources
References
- 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