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Third
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4022
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4022 (4022)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mertoun
- National Grid reference
- NT 6140 3509
- Latitude
- 55.60791
- Longitude
- -2.61421
- Altitude
- 152 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Geophysical Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57183
- National record
- record NT 63 NW 3; monument 57183
- Wikidata
- Q31106957
Sources
References
- Wise, A L (1995) 'Third (Mertoun parish), earthwork'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 9