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Wallace's Knowe
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4013
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4013 (4013)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5449 5542
- Latitude
- 55.78997
- Longitude
- -2.72733
- Altitude
- 320 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.16 ha
- Footprint
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1956); Other (1979); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4473
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55970
- National record
- record NT 55 NW 13; monument 55970
- Wikidata
- Q31107038
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