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Blackcastle Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4029
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4029 (4029)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Greenlaw
- National Grid reference
- NT 6935 4785
- Latitude
- 55.72313
- Longitude
- -2.48951
- Altitude
- 206 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.18 ha, 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1905); Other (1908); Other (1912); Other (1927); Other (1956); Other (1961); Other (1963); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 363
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57300
- National record
- record NT 64 NE 5; monument 57300
- Wikidata
- Q31107152
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- Elliot, W (1872) 'Anniversary address, delivered at Berwick, on the 30th of September 1869'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 6 (1869-72), 1-53
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- RCAHMS (1909) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. First report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick. HMSO: Edinburgh.
- RCAHMS (1915) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Sixth report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick (Revised Issue). HMSO: Edinburgh
- Smith, J A (1875) 'Notice of a silver chain or girdle, the property of Thomas Simson, of Blainslie, Esq., Berwickshire; another, in the University of Aberdeen; and of other ancient Scottish silver chains'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 10 (1872-4), 321-47