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Aytonlaw W
Scottish Borders, Scotland ยท Atlas SC4133
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4133 (4133)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Scottish Borders
- Historic county
- Berwickshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ayton
- National Grid reference
- NT 9102 6087
- Latitude
- 55.84101
- Longitude
- -2.14496
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1771); Earthwork Survey (1920); Other (1948); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1979); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 12485
- HER
- Scottish Borders 60251
- National record
- record NT 96 SW 6; monument 60251
- Wikidata
- Q31107651
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1921) 'Notes on Berwickshire Forts, with a description of those recently discovered'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 55 (1920-1), 231-55
- St Joseph, J K (1967) Air reconnaissance: recent results, 10'. Antiquity 41 (1967), 148-9