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Ayton
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4142
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4142 (4142)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ayton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9324 6125
- Latitude
- 55.84446
- Longitude
- -2.10952
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 60238
- National record
- record NT 96 SW 48; monument 60238
- Wikidata
- Q31107587
Sources