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Lylestone Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4018
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4018 (4018)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5327 5272
- Latitude
- 55.76559
- Longitude
- -2.74632
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1975); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4557
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56061
- National record
- record NT 55 SW 9; monument 56061
- Wikidata
- Q31107076
Sources