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Marygoldhill Plantation
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4104
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4104 (4104)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bunkle And Preston
- National Grid reference
- NT 8072 6051
- Latitude
- 55.83747
- Longitude
- -2.30940
- Altitude
- 236 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope 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
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Oblique (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1857); Earthwork Survey (1895); Other (1898); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1939); Other (1950); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 375
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59927
- National record
- record NT 86 SW 3; monument 59927
- Wikidata
- Q31107492
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Lynn, F (1897) 'Bunkle Edge forts'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 15 (1894-5), 365-76
- 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
- Strong, P (1988) 'Pit alignment and earthworks between Marygoldhill Plantation and Drakemire, Berwickshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 118 (1988), 111-29