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Earn's Heugh Nw
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4094
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4094 (4094)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8918 6914
- Latitude
- 55.91535
- Longitude
- -2.17458
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.18 ha, 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Blocked (South east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop, coastal promontory, and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1834); Other (1856); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1927); Excavation (1931); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1971); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 368
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59800
- National record
- record NT 86 NE 8; monument 59800
- Wikidata
- Q31107424
Sources
References
- Childe, V G, & Forde, D (1932) 'Excavations in two Iron Age Forts at Earn's Heugh, near Coldingham'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 66 (1931-2), 152-83
- 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
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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