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Linthill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4136
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4136 (4136)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Eyemouth
- National Grid reference
- NT 9228 6280
- Latitude
- 55.85845
- Longitude
- -2.12489
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.97 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.36 ha, 0.97 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1978); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 60208
- National record
- record NT 96 SW 20; monument 60208
- Wikidata
- Q31107575
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1921) 'Notes on Berwickshire Forts, with a description of those recently discovered'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 55 (1920-1), 231-55