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Milne Graden
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4074
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4074 (4074)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldstream
- National Grid reference
- NT 8734 4383
- Latitude
- 55.68789
- Longitude
- -2.20288
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1826); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1862); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1955); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12401
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59579
- National record
- record NT 84 SE 14; monument 59579
- Wikidata
- Q31107356
Sources
References
- Milne Home, D (1862) 'Notices of the remains of ancient camps on both banks of the River Tweed, near Milne-Graden'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 4 (1857-62), 454-58
- 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