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Hownam Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3426
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3426 (3426)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hownam
- National Grid reference
- NT 7964 2200
- Latitude
- 55.49140
- Longitude
- -2.32378
- Altitude
- 449 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 8.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1791); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1929); Earthwork Survey (1949); Other (1958); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 298
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58271
- National record
- record NT 72 SE 10; monument 58271
- Wikidata
- Q31105782
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894. Blackwood & Sons: Edinburgh
- Craw, J H (1931) 'Hounam Law fort'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 27 (1929-31), 218-20
- 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