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Clifton Hill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4071
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4071 (4071)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cockburnspath
- National Grid reference
- NT 7662 7071
- Latitude
- 55.92898
- Longitude
- -2.37567
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 1.12 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1929); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1986)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58856
- National record
- record NT 77 SE 17; monument 58856
- Wikidata
- Q31107200
Sources
References
- Taylor, G (1933) 'Ancient graves at Hoprig'. Trans E Lothian Antiq Fld Natur Soc 2 (1929-33)