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Stoney Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3415
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3415 (3415)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oxnam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7300 1156
- Latitude
- 55.39727
- Longitude
- -2.42785
- Altitude
- 301 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.31 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1979); Other (2000); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10735
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58149
- National record
- record NT 71 SW 15; monument 58149
- Wikidata
- Q31105763
Sources
References
- 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