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Harefaulds
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4014
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4014 (4014)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lauder
- National Grid reference
- NT 5745 5005
- Latitude
- 55.74199
- Longitude
- -2.67929
- Altitude
- 293 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.68 ha
- Footprint
- 0.85 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- south
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1826); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1870); Excavation (1871); Other (1873); Other (1882); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1897); Earthwork Survey (1902); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1914); Other (1950); Other (1955); O
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 370
- HER
- Scottish Borders 56006
- National record
- record NT 55 SE 14; monument 56006
- Wikidata
- Q31107045
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
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Lynn, F (1902) 'The Haerfaulds'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 18 (1901-2), 272-4
- Milne Home, D (1872) 'Notice of a number of circular stone huts, surrounded by a thick stone wall, enclosing one and a half acres, called the Harefaulds, in Lauder Parish, Berwickshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 9 (1870-2), 465-72
- 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