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Gordon Castle, Bogle Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4034
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4034 (4034)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gordon
- National Grid reference
- NT 6456 4375
- Latitude
- 55.68596
- Longitude
- -2.56523
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1955); Other (1979); Other (1989); Other (1990)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57387
- National record
- record NT 64 SW 6; monument 57387
- Wikidata
- Q31107037
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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.