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Edgerston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3371
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3371 (3371)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jedburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 6798 1245
- Latitude
- 55.40496
- Longitude
- -2.50721
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-framed wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Excavation (1928); Excavation (1929); Excavation (1930); Excavation (1931); Excavation (1932); Excavation (1933); Excavation (1934); Excavation (1935); Excavation (1936); Excavation (1937); Excavation (1938); Earthwork
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56917
- National record
- record NT 61 SE 2; monument 56917
- Wikidata
- Q31105321
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1946) Scotland before the Scots: being the Rhind lectures 1944. London
- Hunter, F (2000) 'Camps, Edgerston, Scottish Borders (Jedburgh parish), Iron Age mount'. Disc Exc Scot 1, New Ser (2000), 76
- 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
- Robertson, A S (1970) 'Roman finds from non-Roman sites in Scotland' Britannia 1 (1970), 198-226
- Robertson, A S (1984) 'Roman coins found in Scotland, 1971-1982'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 113 (1983), 405-48 (Table 3)