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Blackchester
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4016
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4016 (4016)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5078 5045
- Latitude
- 55.74495
- Longitude
- -2.78559
- Altitude
- 260 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1857); Other (1883); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1936); Other (1952); Other (1963); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 364
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56025
- National record
- record NT 55 SW 1; monument 56025
- Wikidata
- Q31107064
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
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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