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Butchercote
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4025
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4025 (4025)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mertoun
- National Grid reference
- NT 6275 3468
- Latitude
- 55.60433
- Longitude
- -2.59279
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57242
- National record
- record NT 63 SW 3; monument 57242
- Wikidata
- Q31106978
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