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Castle Dykes, Dunglass Dean
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC0486
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0486 (486)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cockburnspath
- National Grid reference
- NT 7730 7239
- Latitude
- 55.94413
- Longitude
- -2.36501
- Altitude
- 37 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1855); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Excavation (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58852
- National record
- record NT 77 SE 13; monument 58852
- Wikidata
- Q31104758
Sources
References
- Morrison, J (2003) 'Castle Dykes, Dunglass (Cockburnspath parish), evaluation', Discovery Excav Scot, vol.4
- 114
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh Vol.2 (Berwick), 303
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/, Haddingtonshire, No.8, p 5
- RCAHMS (1909) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. First report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick. HMSO: Edinburgh. RCAHMS (1915) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Sixth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of Berwick, Revision Edinburgh