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Mire Loch
Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Mire Loch
Classification Roundhouse(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 60164
Site Number NT96NW 3
NGR NT 9084 6863
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60164
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Coldingham
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT96NW 3 9084 6863.
(NT 9083 6863) Settlement (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
Fort (see RCAHMS 1915 plan, fig.50).
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908; D Christison 1895.
A settlement, as planned by the RCAHMS.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(RD) 8 March 1966.
This roughly rectangular settlement, measuring about 44m by 28.5m within a wall (0.6m high and spread to a thickness of 3.7m) occupies the rounded summit of a hill due S of Pettico Wick Harbour, (at an elevation of 105m OD). The S corner of the interior has been incorporated into what is probably a secondary enclosure containing the turf-covered footings of two circular houses. Within the settlement there are footings of two houses with internal diameters of 6.2m and 7m respectively.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Field Visit (27 August 1908)
88. Fort, Coldingham Loch.
At the top of a high-lying field some 750 yards south - south - west of the signal station on St Abb's Head, and 350 feet above sea-level, is an oblong enclosure (fig. 50), surrounded by a single dilapidated bank of earth and stone, and measuring in diameter, from crest to crest of rampart,158 feet by 98 feet. The entrance appears to have been from the south-east. From the south-west side of the entrance a low bank runs into the interior for a distance of 74 feet, and thereafter curves round towards the south-west rampart. Within the area thus enclosed, and at its north-west end, is a circular foundation with an interior diameter of 18 feet, and indications of another adjoining it to the north. At the north-west end of the main enclosure, 8 feet distant from the north-east side, is a well-defined circle with an interior diameter of 23 feet, surrounded by a bank some 5 feet broad; and to the south of it, abutting on the east side, is another similar foundation.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 27th August 1908.
See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 173 (plan).
OS Map: Ber., v. NE. and vi. NW.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
