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Cairnbank
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4056
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4056 (4056)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duns
- National Grid reference
- NT 7974 5373
- Latitude
- 55.77659
- Longitude
- -2.32442
- Altitude
- 128 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1993); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12538
- HER
- Scottish Borders 88263
- National record
- record NT 75 SE 71; monument 88263
- Wikidata
- Q31107216
Sources