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Burncastle
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4019
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4019 (4019)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5399 5178
- Latitude
- 55.75722
- Longitude
- -2.73469
- Altitude
- 325 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.58 ha, 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1963); Other (1975); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4656
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56028
- National record
- record NT 55 SW 12; monument 56028
- Wikidata
- Q31107096
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