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Hardacres Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4050
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4050 (4050)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eccles
- National Grid reference
- NT 7430 4191
- Latitude
- 55.67005
- Longitude
- -2.41015
- Altitude
- 99 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); Other (1858); Other (1875); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1966); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58567
- National record
- record NT 74 SW 8; monument 58567
- Wikidata
- Q31107105
Sources
References
- Hardy, J (1885) 'On the ancient cross at Crosshall, in the Parish of Eccles, Berwickshire'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882-4), 366-72
- 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