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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: RaecleughheadCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.4 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Scottish Borders Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Duns Nearest Village: Longformacus
Map Ref: NT74355351
Latitude: 55.774234N Longitude: 2.410447W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Bi- or tri-vallate Hillfort. Superb views over to Cheviots and to Lammermuirs A further Hillfort can be seen to the south, less than half a kilometre away.
For more information see Canmore ID 58705, which adds this is: "a roughly circular fort, measuring about 66m by 57m internally. Its defences comprise double ditches with a medial rampart, and there is a possible palisade trench along the inner lip of the inner ditch. The original entrance was probably on the East but it is blocked by a later bank which encloses the whole fort."
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