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West Morriston
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4004
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4004 (4004)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Legerwood
- National Grid reference
- NT 5990 4080
- Latitude
- 55.65909
- Longitude
- -2.63891
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.59 ha, 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); Simple Gap (East); Over-lapping (South west); Blocked (South west); Oblique (South west); Hornwork (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1883); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1910); Other (1925); Other (1955); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55942
- National record
- record NT 54 SE 5; monument 55942
- Wikidata
- Q31106821
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1895) 'The forts of Selkirk, the Gala Water, the Southern slopes of the Lammermoors, and the north of Roxburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 29 (1894-50), 108-79
- Craw, J H (1925) 'Reports of meetings, 1925'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 25 (1923-5), 336-80
- RCAHMS (1909) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. First report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick. HMSO: Edinburgh.
- RCAHMS (1915) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Sixth report and Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of Berwick (Revised Issue). HMSO: Edinburgh
- Tait, J (1884) 'On the Black Dyke and some British camps in the west of Berwickshire'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882-4), 307-12