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Lowries Knowes
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4093
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4093 (4093)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8537 6970
- Latitude
- 55.92020
- Longitude
- -2.23566
- Altitude
- 208 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 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1952); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1979); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1989)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4708
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59796
- National record
- record NT 86 NE 4; monument 59796
- Wikidata
- Q31107422
Sources