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Brander Heugh
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4111
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4111 (4111)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coldingham
- National Grid reference
- NT 8717 7039
- Latitude
- 55.92645
- Longitude
- -2.20689
- Altitude
- 121 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1933); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (1997); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12357
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59945
- National record
- record NT 87 SE 2; monument 59945
- Wikidata
- Q31107622
Sources
References
- Carter, S (1997) 'St Abb's Head (Coldingham parish), survey'. Disc Exc Scot (1997), 66
- Kinghorn, R (1935) 'Unrecorded Berwickshire antiquities, being the Chalmers-Jervise Prize essay for 1933'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 157-67