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Field Visit
Date 27 August 1908
Event ID 1088392
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088392
88. Fort, Coldingham Loch.
At the top of a high-lying field some 750 yards south - south - west of the signal station on St Abb's Head, and 350 feet above sea-level, is an oblong enclosure (fig. 50), surrounded by a single dilapidated bank of earth and stone, and measuring in diameter, from crest to crest of rampart,158 feet by 98 feet. The entrance appears to have been from the south-east. From the south-west side of the entrance a low bank runs into the interior for a distance of 74 feet, and thereafter curves round towards the south-west rampart. Within the area thus enclosed, and at its north-west end, is a circular foundation with an interior diameter of 18 feet, and indications of another adjoining it to the north. At the north-west end of the main enclosure, 8 feet distant from the north-east side, is a well-defined circle with an interior diameter of 23 feet, surrounded by a bank some 5 feet broad; and to the south of it, abutting on the east side, is another similar foundation.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 27th August 1908.
See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 173 (plan).
OS Map: Ber., v. NE. and vi. NW.
