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Oblique aerial view.

PB 2057

Description Oblique aerial view.

Date 1981

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number PB 2057

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 573041, SC 1730635

Scope and Content Fort, Mitchellhill Rings, Scottish Borders Situated on the east spur of White Hill, high above the Kilbucho Burn, this heavily defended fort is roughly circular on plan. The fort was succeeded by a circular stone-walled settlement, which is concentrically placed within the interior. Viewed from the south-west, this aerial photograph clearly shows the ramparts and ditches of the earlier fort, although the settlement is barely visible in the interior. Later rig-and-furrow cultivation can be seen in the heather beyond the fort. Large numbers of forts are found throughout the Border counties and into Lanarkshire. Most were occupied in the middle centuries of the first millennium BC and some, as here, reveal evidence that they succeeded by lightly enclosed settlements. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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