Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719959

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT73NW 8 7455 3749.

(NT 7455 3749) Fort (NR) (site of)

(NT 7464 3740) Enclosure (NR) (site of)

OS 6"map, (1971).

Marks representing what seems to have been a fort with a small enclosure beside it appear on air photographs. The site is on the summit of Ednam Hill, 282ft OD, with a wide view in all directions. As the NW side of the hilltop consists of a straight, steep slope, this side of the fort was likewise straight, and gave to the whole structure the outline of a D with its longer axis running from SW to NE. At the NE end there were three ditches and at the SW end, where some slight traces can be seen on the ground, at least two; the fort was about 350ft long over the innermost ditch and some 295 to 310ft broad. South-east of it, on the slope descending to the Ednam - Coldstream road, the photographs indicate a small enclosure about 90ft in diameter, but this has been completely ploughed out.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949; J K St Joseph air photographs, (CUCAP).

No traces of the fort or enclosure were found during field investigation. From ground inspection and J K St Joseph air photograph DM 99, the fort was sited to NT 7455 3749 and the enclosure to NT 7464 3740.

Visited by OS(WDJ) 29 June 1966.

Fort and Enclosure - photographed by the RCAHMS.

RCAHMS flown 1977 and 1979.