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Whitmuirhaugh, Sprouston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3427
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3427 (3427)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Roxburghshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Sprouston
- National Grid reference
- NT 7571 3609
- Latitude
- 55.61782
- Longitude
- -2.38722
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1970); Other (1971); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3023
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58328 & 141939
- National record
- record NT 73 NE 22; monument 58328 & 141939
- Wikidata
- Q31105802
Sources
References
- Reynolds, N (1980) 'Dark Age timber halls and the background to the excavation of Balbridie'. Scot Archaeol Forum 10 (1980), 41-60
- Smith, I M (1982) 'Sprouston (Sprouston p). Survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1982), 3
- Smith, I M (1981) 'Sprouston (Sprouston p). Survey: crop mark timber building; promontory fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1981), 4
- Smith, I M (1992) 'Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an early Anglian centre of the eastern Tweed Basin'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 121 (1991), 261-94
- St Joseph, J K (1982) 'Sprouston, Roxburghshire: an Anglo-Saxon settlement discovered by air reconnaissance'. Anglo-Saxon England 10 (1982), 191-9