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Bowhill
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4171
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4171 (4171)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Selkirkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Selkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 4300 2816
- Latitude
- 55.54387
- Longitude
- -2.90474
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop 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 Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (2016)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 350121
- National record
- record NT 42 NW 74; monument 350121
- Wikidata
- Q31107625
Sources