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Oldcastles
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4083
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4083 (4083)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Chirnside
- National Grid reference
- NT 8638 5860
- Latitude
- 55.82050
- Longitude
- -2.21884
- Altitude
- 106 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.5 ha, 0.64 ha, 1 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); Other (1964); Other (1971); Other (1979); Other (1991); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5228
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59655
- National record
- record NT 85 NE 25; monument 59655
- Wikidata
- Q31107399
Sources
References
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99