Field Visit

Date 8 October 1908

Event ID 1088638

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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RCAHMS County Inventory: Berwickshire

248. Promontory Fort, Wrinklaw (Wrunklaw or Runklie).

This fort (fig. 122 [DP 228317]) is situated at the base of the Wrinklaw, on a promontory formed between the Water of Dye and a small stream which flows down a glen on the north-east, some 900 feet above sea-level and 1 ½ miles or thereby distant from the village of Longformacus. The face of the bank overlooking the Dye to the southward is abruptly steep, and has an elevation of about 150 feet, while on the north-east flank the glen of the burn likewise provides a strong natural defence. Across the neck of the promontory facing the higher ground on the northwest there rises a rampart with a height of some 4 to 5 feet, pierced by an entrance near the centre, and to the south of that covered by a trench, 10 to 12 feet deep, which, beyond the termination of the rampart, is continued down the bank at a little distance from the fort. Some 86 feet south of the rampart occurs a second line of defence, a trench some 36 feet wide from crest to crest, with a mound in rear of it some 6 feet in height which curves slightly towards the steep flanks at either end. Within the fort are the remains of a number of rectangular foundations in two contiguous rows, and of other buildings, all probably connected with some late secondary occupation.

See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 156 (plan); Ber. Nat. Club, 1882-84, p. 24.

RCAHMS 1915, visited 8th October 1908.

OS Map: Ber., ix. SW.