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Westerside
Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Westerside
Classification Settlement (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 59775
Site Number NT86NE 17
NGR NT 8896 6872
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/59775
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Coldingham
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT86NE 17 8895 6870
See also NT86NE 32.
(NT 8895 6870) A settlement occupies the NW end of a ridge about 250m E of Westerside farmhouse. Oval on plan, it measures 39m by 32m within a robbed wall (0.5m high and spread to 2.8m in thickness). The original entrance was probably on the NW, and in the interior there is a circular house site.
RCAHMS 1915; RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Field Visit (May 1911)
82. Fort-like Enclosures, Coldingham Loch.
Situated on the end of a knoll, at an elevation of 520 feet above sea-level, to the west of the northwest end of Coldingham Loch and some 550 yards to the north- west of Westloch House, is a small circular enclosure surrounded by a low stony bank, measuring some 135 feet by 111 feet, and entered from the north-west and south-east. In the interior are two circular depressions measuring in diameter respectively 27 and 24 feet (fig. 44). On lower ground, some 12 feet to the south-east, is a smaller and oblong enclosure of similar character measuring 90 feet by 51, containing two circular foundations of 30 and 24 feet in diameter, and a smaller and rectangular enclosure. The entrance appears to have been from the south-east. Some 34 yards further to the south-east lies a third enclosure, elliptical in outline, measuring 69 feet by 57 feet.
RCAHMS 1915, visited May 1911.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
