Westloch House
Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Westloch House
Classification Settlement (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Westloch
Canmore ID 59769
Site Number NT86NE 11
NGR NT 8955 6792
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/59769
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Coldingham
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT86NE 11 8955 6792.
(NT 8955 6792) Settlement (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
A roughly rectangular area enclosed by a single bank (double on the NE), and to a large extent destroyed by quarrying. There are several hut circles, from 15ft to 19ft in diameter in the interior.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908.
As described above. Vague circular and rectangular foundations lie against the enclosing bank. The whole is badly mutilated.
Visited by OS (JLD) 4 November 1954.
This settlement is as previously described.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 February 1966.
This settlement is situated on a low knoll about 350m SSE of Westloch House. Rectilinear on plan, it measures 58m by 43m within a wall up to 0.5m in height and spread to a thickness of 3.3m. A number of hollows and stony banks in the interior may be the result of surface quarrying.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Field Visit (18 August 1908)
87. Fort, Coldingham Loch.
About 500 yards south of the most southerly point of Coldingham Loch, on a slight eminence at an elevation of some 450 feet above sea-level, is an enclosure (fig. 49) much destroyed by quarrying and overgrown with whins. In form it appears to have been roughly rectangular, measuring some 190 feet by 160 feet, encircled by a single rampart of earth and stone, doubled on the north-east where the fort has been most vulnerable. There are indications of several hut circles in the interior measuring from 15 to 29 feet.
See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 175.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 18th August 1908
OS Map: Ber., v. NE. and vi: NW.
Field Visit (5 August 1950)
Settlements, Coldingham Loch, (Inventory Nos. 81, 85, 86 and 87).
All these structures are Romano-British or Dark Age settlements, comparable to those in Roxburghshire.
Visited by RCAHMS (KS) 5 August 1950.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
