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Longcroft
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4008
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4008 (4008)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5325 5435
- Latitude
- 55.78031
- Longitude
- -2.74688
- Altitude
- 350 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.86 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.38 ha, 0.69 ha, 0.86 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, rubble, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1853); Other (1883); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1894); Other (1897); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1927); Other (1952); Other (1961); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 372
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56047
- National record
- record NT 55 SW 3; monument 56047
- Wikidata
- Q31106927
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Gunn, G (1895) 'Report of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for the year 1894 (revised by James Hardy)'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 15 (1894-5), 30-98
- 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