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Haly Jo, Lumsdaine

Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4092

Location

Atlas number
SC4092 (4092)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Scottish Borders
Historic county
Berwickshire
Parish, community, or townland
Coldingham
National Grid reference
NT 8741 6978
Latitude
55.92098
Longitude
-2.20302
Altitude
159 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.14 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (East)

Landscape

Topographic position
inland promontory and knoll or outcrop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1933); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (2009)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
12348
HER
Scottish Borders 59789
National record
record NT 86 NE 3; monument 59789
Wikidata
Q31107412

Sources

References

  1. Kinghorn, R (1935) 'Unrecorded Berwickshire antiquities, being the Chalmers-Jervise Prize essay for 1933'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 157-67