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Lour
Scottish Borders, Scotland · Atlas SC3569
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3569 (3569)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumelzier
- National Grid reference
- NT 1795 3570
- Latitude
- 55.60800
- Longitude
- -3.30401
- Altitude
- 258 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.44 ha
- Footprint
- 0.73 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400, after AD 800, and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1958); Excavation (1959); Excavation (1960); Other (1964); Other (1969); Other (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2880
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49810
- National record
- record NT 13 NE 1; monument 49810
- Wikidata
- Q31106202
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1887) 'The prehistoric forts of Peeblesshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 21 (1886-7), 13-82
- Dunbar and Hay, J G and G D (1963) 'Excavations at Lour, Stobo, 1959-60'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 94 (1960-1), 196-205
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh