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Shannabank Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4070
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4070 (4070)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abbey St Bathans
- National Grid reference
- NT 7509 6292
- Latitude
- 55.85886
- Longitude
- -2.39952
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1936); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 379
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58778
- National record
- record NT 76 SE 7; monument 58778
- Wikidata
- Q31107325
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 (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