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Fosterland Burn
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4108
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4108 (4108)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bunkle And Preston
- National Grid reference
- NT 8281 6088
- Latitude
- 55.84092
- Longitude
- -2.27599
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1856); Other (1895); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1912); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1991); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4998
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59943
- National record
- record NT 86 SW 9; monument 59943
- Wikidata
- Q31107563
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
- 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