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Hirsel Law
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4078
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4078 (4078)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldstream
- National Grid reference
- NT 8252 4160
- Latitude
- 55.66763
- Longitude
- -2.27930
- Altitude
- 95 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 4.4 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 Written Reference (1977); Other (1978); Geophysical Survey (1984); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12349
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59635
- National record
- record NT 84 SW 7; monument 59635
- Wikidata
- Q31107390
Sources
References
- Aspinall, A (1985) 'Geophysical Survey on Hirsel Law 1982-84'. Universities of Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Reports 8 (1985), 58-65
- Welfare, H (1978) 'Jigsaw puzzle and dustbin: air photography and the Iron Age in southern Scotland'. Scot Archaeol Forum 10 (1978), 1-11