Home / Scotland / Scottish Borders / Warlawbank, Horseley Hill

Warlawbank, Horseley Hill

Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4107

Location

Atlas number
SC4107 (4107)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Scottish Borders
Historic county
Berwickshire
Parish, community, or townland
Coldingham
National Grid reference
NT 8312 6200
Latitude
55.85095
Longitude
-2.27103
Altitude
260 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant and Cropmark
Morphology
bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
2
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
3
Breaks through the ramparts
3
Enclosed area
0.6 ha
Footprint
1.3 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank and counterscarp bank
Also recorded
ditches and gang working
Entrance forms
Passage-way/Corridor (South east); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and arable

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Other (1856); Other (1895); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1992); Other (2009)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
5428
HER
Scottish Borders 59942
National record
record NT 86 SW 8; monument 59942
Wikidata
Q31107552

Sources

References

  1. 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
  2. Lynn, F (1897) 'Bunkle Edge forts'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 15 (1894-5), 365-76
  3. 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.
  4. 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