Earn's Heugh
The two once oval or D-shaped hill or promontory forts of Earn's Heugh (also called Tunlaw bank) are located on the North Sea coast on Mount Tun Law , northeast of Coldingham in Berwickshire in the Borders in Scotland .
Some of this double fort arrangement was lost due to coastal erosion, but the 150 m high cliff was presumably used as a sea-side boundary from the beginning. Each of the two overlapping Iron Age or Bronze Age forts appears to have been used at least in two phases. First a single wall and moat was built, which then overlaid the wall of the eastern fort by adding two outer walls with an intermediate moat in the western fort, which was expanded to about 78.0 m. The remaining walls are between 1.4 and 1.8 m high in the western fort and between 0.6 and 1.6 m in the east.
Traces of stone houses from the 2nd to 4th centuries are visible on an area of 55 × 30 m in the western fort and the excavation by Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) in 1931 revealed Roman artifacts .
The twin enclosures are similar to those of the Iron Age Promontory Fort from Chester Hill, 11.0 km away .
literature
- John Baldwin: Edinburgh, Lothians and the Borders (Exploring Scotland's Heritage series). 2nd edition, Edinburgh 1997
Web links
- Entry on Earn's Heugh in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland's database
- Description and pictures
Coordinates: 55 ° 54 '54.5 " N , 2 ° 10' 27.1" W.