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Earn's Heugh Se
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4095
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4095 (4095)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8927 6911
- Latitude
- 55.91501
- Longitude
- -2.17315
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- 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
- Q31107426
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