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The Chesters, Fogo
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4046
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4046 (4046)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Fogo
- National Grid reference
- NT 7401 4749
- Latitude
- 55.72017
- Longitude
- -2.41529
- Altitude
- 159 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); Other (1858); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4452
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58517
- National record
- record NT 74 NW 7; monument 58517
- Wikidata
- Q31107188
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
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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