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Archaeology Notes
Date 13 July 1975
Event ID 718175
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/718175
NT58SE 10 555 839.
(NT 555 839) Hut Circles (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
On the S slopes of North Berwick Law are many rock-faced terraces, some of which appear walled, others scooped to form huts or enclosures. On the SW shoulder are two adjoining, stone-walled rectangular enclosures measuring 33ft by 25ft and 22ft by 15ft. Further up the hill are three roughly circular stone-walled enclosures varying from 18ft in diameter to 33ft. On the same level, to the W, is a roughly quadrilateral area 18ft to 20ft across, enclosed by a setting of seven stones, with an entrance in the E wall.
Along the S base of the Law are many stone foundations and kitchen middens. A saucer-shaped midden was found in a quarry; finds, donated to the NMAS in 1923 by Dr Richardson, included assorted bone and stone implements.
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913; J S Richardson 1907; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1924
Spread over the lower southern slopes of North Berwick Law are five groups of hut circles and enclosures, totalling twenty-one individual structures. A few are oval, but most are circular, varying from 8.0m to 13.0m in diameter; all are scooped. There are indications of cultivation in the form of wasted banks forming strip fields towards the E end of the settlement.
Visited by OS (SFS) 13 July 1975
