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Big Chesters, Bowshiel
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4065
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4065 (4065)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cockburnspath
- National Grid reference
- NT 7911 6741
- Latitude
- 55.89946
- Longitude
- -2.33553
- Altitude
- 189 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Oblique (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58717
- National record
- record NT 76 NE 10; monument 58717
- Wikidata
- Q31107190
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