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Raecleugh Head Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4057
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4057 (4057)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Langton
- National Grid reference
- NT 7435 5351
- Latitude
- 55.77427
- Longitude
- -2.41045
- Altitude
- 299 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1920); Other (1927); Other (1961); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 378
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58705
- National record
- record NT 75 SW 2; monument 58705
- Wikidata
- Q31107238
Sources
References
- Aiken, J (1922) 'Reports of Meetings for the Year 1920; (1) Duns for Raecleughhhead and Langton, 19th May'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 24 (1919-22), 195-217
- 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
- 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