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Dean Castles
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4114
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4114 (4114)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cockburnspath
- National Grid reference
- NT 8077 7053
- Latitude
- 55.92750
- Longitude
- -2.30932
- Altitude
- 80 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.63 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
- Water source
- spring
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1885); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1899); Other (1908); Earthwork Survey (1909); Other (1954); Other (1965); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59955
- National record
- record NT 87 SW 2; monument 59955
- Wikidata
- Q31107436
Sources
References
- Hardy, J (1887) 'On some British remains near Oldcambus'. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 11 (1885-6), 159-61
- 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