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Brotherstone Hill West
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4024
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4024 (4024)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mertoun
- National Grid reference
- NT 6111 3595
- Latitude
- 55.61562
- Longitude
- -2.61900
- Altitude
- 263 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Footprint
- 0.91 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Oblique (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1921); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1962); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4451
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57166
- National record
- record NT 63 NW 13; monument 57166
- Wikidata
- Q31107124
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1921) 'Notes on Berwickshire Forts, with a description of those recently discovered'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 55 (1920-1), 231-55