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Heckside Plantation, Clinthill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4027
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4027 (4027)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mertoun
- National Grid reference
- NT 6085 3315
- Latitude
- 55.59045
- Longitude
- -2.62269
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1961); Geophysical Survey (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57254
- National record
- record NT 63 SW 40; monument 57254
- Wikidata
- Q31106996
Sources
References
- Wise, A L (1995) 'Heckside 2 (Mertoun parish), enclsoure'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 8-9