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Siccar Point
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4115
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4115 (4115)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Cockburnspath
- National Grid reference
- NT 8111 7088
- Latitude
- 55.93066
- Longitude
- -2.30390
- Altitude
- 76 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and animal bones
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1933); Other (1954); Other (1965); Other (1979); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- HER
- Scottish Borders 59962
- National record
- record NT 87 SW 9; monument 59962
- Wikidata
- Q31107442
Sources
References
- James, H F (2003) 'Assessment survey: the Firth of Forth (Dunbar to the border of Fife)'. In Dawson, T, Coastal archaeology and erosion in Scotland. Edinburgh.
- Kinghorn, R (1935) 'Unrecorded Berwickshire antiquities, being the Chalmers-Jervise Prize essay for 1933'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 157-67