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Belchester
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4048
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4048 (4048)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eccles
- National Grid reference
- NT 7925 4350
- Latitude
- 55.68457
- Longitude
- -2.33157
- Altitude
- 70 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1858); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1955); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1988); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4547
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58523
- National record
- record NT 74 SE 12; monument 58523
- Wikidata
- Q31107194
Sources
References
- 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