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Ewieside Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4063
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4063 (4063)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cockburnspath
- National Grid reference
- NT 7777 6877
- Latitude
- 55.91155
- Longitude
- -2.35718
- Altitude
- 251 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system, ditches, and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Passage-way/Corridor (North west); Blocked (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1856); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1936); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 369
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58747
- National record
- record NT 76 NE 5; monument 58747
- Wikidata
- Q31107296
Sources
References
- 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