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Wester Dawyck
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3575
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3575 (3575)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Peeblesshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Drumelzier
- National Grid reference
- NT 1547 3514
- Latitude
- 55.60254
- Longitude
- -3.34320
- Altitude
- 210 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 0, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Earthwork Survey (1886); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 49814
- National record
- record NT 13 NE 13; monument 49814
- Wikidata
- Q31106147
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1887) 'The prehistoric forts of Peeblesshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 21 (1886-7), 13-82
- RCAHMS (1967) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Peeblesshire: an inventory of the ancient monuments, 2v. HMSO: Edinburgh