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Hareheugh Craigs
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4031
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4031 (4031)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hume
- National Grid reference
- NT 6877 4005
- Latitude
- 55.65301
- Longitude
- -2.49785
- Altitude
- 216 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1934); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1963); Other (1979); Other (1987); Earthwork Survey (1999); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4783
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57351
- National record
- record NT 64 SE 5; monument 57351
- Wikidata
- Q31107158
Sources
References
- Ellis, C (1999) 'Hareheugh Craigs (Hume parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot (1999), 76
- Kinghorn, R (1935) 'Unrecorded Berwickshire antiquities, being the Chalmers-Jervise Prize essay for 1933'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 157-67