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Billie Mains
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4084
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4084 (4084)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8621 5913
- Latitude
- 55.82527
- Longitude
- -2.22158
- Altitude
- 68 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and marsh fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1950); Other (1972); Other (1979); Other (1984); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5219
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59657
- National record
- record NT 85 NE 27; monument 59657
- Wikidata
- Q31107403
Sources