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Ninewells
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4081
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4081 (4081)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chirnside
- National Grid reference
- NT 8667 5533
- Latitude
- 55.79118
- Longitude
- -2.21402
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant, Cropmark, and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- woodland, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1911); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971); Other (1979); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59685
- National record
- record NT 85 NE 7; monument 59685
- Wikidata
- Q31107280
Sources
References
- 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