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Fancove Head
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4132
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4132 (4132)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ayton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9546 6250
- Latitude
- 55.85571
- Longitude
- -2.07409
- Altitude
- 57 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 60179
- National record
- record NT 96 SE 10; monument 60179
- Wikidata
- Q31107545
Sources