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Wrunklaw
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4039
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4039 (4039)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Longformacus
- National Grid reference
- NT 6722 5845
- Latitude
- 55.81823
- Longitude
- -2.52470
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory 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 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Hollow Way (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- Other (1857); 1st Identified Written Reference (1882); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1954); Other (1963); Other (1979); Other (1991); Earthwork Survey (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5003
- HER
- Scottish Borders 57391
- National record
- record NT 65 NE 1; monument 57391
- Wikidata
- Q31107175
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
- Farquharson, J (1884) 'Address delivered to the Berwickshire Naturalists Club, at Selkirk, October 11th 1882'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 10 (1882-4), 1- 64
- 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