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Duns Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4055
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4055 (4055)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Duns
- National Grid reference
- NT 7850 5468
- Latitude
- 55.78499
- Longitude
- -2.34438
- Altitude
- 218 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures, rectangular stone structures, and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1857); Other (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1968); Other (1977); Other (1979); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3939
- HER
- Scottish Borders 58640
- National record
- record NT 75 SE 2; monument 58640
- Wikidata
- Q31107213
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
- 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
- Stevenson, W (1856) 'On a cist found at Broomhill, near Dunse'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 3 (1850-6), 156-7