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Rubers Law

Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3282

Rubers Law is a contour fort and a multiple enclosure in Cavers, Scottish Borders, Scotland.

Other names on the record: Ruberslaw.

It is recorded as extant, with a partial bivallate and partial multivallate rampart form, surface evidence of stone wall and rubble, and an enclosed area of 3.7 hectares.

Banks or ramparts are the remains most likely to be visible.

The topographic record places it on a hilltop and at 424 m.

The aspect is recorded as level.

Recorded land use includes pasture and heather moorland.

Dating evidence is recorded for AD 400–800 (Artefactual).

A scheduled monument number is recorded (2129).

Location

Atlas number
SC3282 (3282)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Scottish Borders
Historic county
Roxburghshire
Parish, community, or townland
Cavers
National Grid reference
NT 5803 1557
Latitude
55.43225
Longitude
-2.66480
Altitude
424 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort and multiple enclosure
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial bivallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
Possible original entrances
3
Breaks through the ramparts
6
Enclosed area
3.7 ha
Enclosure areas
0.18 ha, 0.68 ha, 3.7 ha
Footprint
4 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall and rubble
Also recorded
annex and multi-period enclosure system
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North); Oblique (South)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
AD 400–800 and undated
Dating evidence
Artefactual
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Interior excavation
roundhouses
Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1836); Earthwork Survey (1904); Excavation (1906); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1918); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1961); Other (1965)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
2129
HER
Scottish Borders 55249
National record
record NT 51 NE 8; monument 55249
Wikidata
Q31105267

Sources

References

  1. Curle, A O (1905) 'Description of the fortifications on Ruberslaw, Roxburghshire, and notices of roman remains found there'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 39 (1904-5), 219-32
  2. Curle, A O (1907) 'Note of excavations on Ruberslaw, Roxburghshire, supplementary to the description of the fortifications thereon'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 41 (1906-7), 451-3
  3. Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 153)
  4. RCAHMS (1956) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Roxburghshire: with the fourteenth report of the Commission, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh