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Date 16 October 2015 - 18 May 2016

Event ID 1044944

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1044944

The site of this fort, which is known only from cropmarks, is marked by Horsburgh Castle (RCAHMS 1967, 236, no.511), a 16th-century tower situated on the summit of a low hill low down on the N side of Tweed valley at the foot of the S spur of Castle Hill. Roughly circular on plan, It measures about 115m in diameter within a ditch about 4m in breadth, and around at least the NE quarter there is also a concentric outer ditch. Allowing for the presence of an inner rampart, the featureless interior is about 0.88ha in extent. No entrances have yet been recorded.

Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3645

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