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Ferneycastle
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4100
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4100 (4100)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8809 6028
- Latitude
- 55.83568
- Longitude
- -2.19164
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1962); Other (1978); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59904
- National record
- record NT 86 SE 9; monument 59904
- Wikidata
- Q31107372
Sources