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Raecleuch Head
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4062
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4062 (4062)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Langton
- National Grid reference
- NT 7453 5295
- Latitude
- 55.76925
- Longitude
- -2.40753
- Altitude
- 229 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1894); Earthwork Survey (1912); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1978); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4580
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58710
- National record
- record NT 75 SW 4; monument 58710
- Wikidata
- Q31107294
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
- 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