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Hillhouse
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4012
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4012 (4012)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Channelkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 5049 5539
- Latitude
- 55.78932
- Longitude
- -2.79097
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 3, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.57 ha
- Footprint
- 1.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Blocked (North west); Hornwork (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, curvilinear platforms, and other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1853); Other (1894); Other (1900); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1963); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4627
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55998
- National record
- record NT 55 NW 8; monument 55998
- Wikidata
- Q31107027
Sources
References
- Allan, A (1900) History of Channelkirk. James Thin: Edinburgh
- 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
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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