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Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4033
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4033 (4033)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Earlston
- National Grid reference
- NT 6227 4178
- Latitude
- 55.66809
- Longitude
- -2.60138
- Altitude
- 145 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1911); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1955); Other (1963); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57378
- National record
- record NT 64 SW 3; monument 57378
- Wikidata
- Q31107033
Sources
References
- 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