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Raecleugh Head
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4061
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4061 (4061)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Langton
- National Grid reference
- NT 7440 5312
- Latitude
- 55.77077
- Longitude
- -2.40961
- Altitude
- 244 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.47 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.29 ha, 0.47 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1920); Other (1927); Other (1961); Other (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 377
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58709
- National record
- record NT 75 SW 3; monument 58709
- Wikidata
- Q31107253
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