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Grizzlefield, East Rings
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4005
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4005 (4005)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Earlston
- National Grid reference
- NT 5924 4014
- Latitude
- 55.65311
- Longitude
- -2.64931
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- 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
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.78 ha, 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Oblique (South); 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 (1771); 1st Identified Written Reference (1883); Earthwork Survey (1911); Other (1955); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 55943
- National record
- record NT 54 SE 6; monument 55943
- Wikidata
- Q31106830
Sources
References
- 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
- 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