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Heckside Plantation, Clinthill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4026
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4026 (4026)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mertoun
- National Grid reference
- NT 6037 3303
- Latitude
- 55.58932
- Longitude
- -2.63032
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1921); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1962); Geophysical Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57275
- National record
- record NT 63 SW 7; monument 57275
- Wikidata
- Q31106986
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
- Wise, A L (1995) 'Heckside 1 (Mertoun parish), enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 8