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Preston Cleugh
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4052
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4052 (4052)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bunkle And Preston
- National Grid reference
- NT 7957 5938
- Latitude
- 55.82727
- Longitude
- -2.32768
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.47 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Other Forms (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1894); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1927); Other (1950); Other (1961); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 376
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58616
- National record
- record NT 75 NE 7; monument 58616
- Wikidata
- Q31107209
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79 Lynn, F (1895) 'Bunkle Edge Forts'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 15 (1894-5), 365-76
- 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