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Whitrighill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4028
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4028 (4028)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Mertoun
- National Grid reference
- NT 6224 3453
- Latitude
- 55.60295
- Longitude
- -2.60086
- Altitude
- 137 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.46 ha, 0.6 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1983); Geophysical Survey (1991); Excavation (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57258
- National record
- record NT 63 SW 44; monument 57258
- Wikidata
- Q31107002
Sources
References
- Dent, J S (1992) 'Whitrighill (Mertoun parish): Iron Age enclosure and post-medieval settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1992), 8
- Jones, R F J et al (1991) 'The Newstead project'. Univ Bradford Archaeol Sci Annu Rep, 1990-1, 5th annual report, 14-15