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Cockburn Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4051
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4051 (4051)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duns
- National Grid reference
- NT 7656 5976
- Latitude
- 55.83054
- Longitude
- -2.37576
- Altitude
- 325 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 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Footprint
- 2.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (North); Oblique (North); Passage-way/Corridor (South); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1850); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1961); Other (1970); Other (1979); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 366
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58569
- National record
- record NT 75 NE 1; monument 58569
- Wikidata
- Q31107198
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 (1894-5), 108-79
- 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
- Turnbull, G (1856) 'An account of Edin's Hall, in the parish of Dunse, and County of Berwick'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 3 (1850-6), 9-20