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Coldingham Loch
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4096
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4096 (4096)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8988 6868
- Latitude
- 55.91116
- Longitude
- -2.16345
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.15 ha, 0.28 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1797); Other (1856); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1932); Other (1950); Other (1966); Other (1979); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 367
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59770
- National record
- record NT 86 NE 12; monument 59770
- Wikidata
- Q31107428
Sources
References
- 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
- 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