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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Earn's Heugh Alternative Name: Tunlaw bank; Earn's HeughCountry: Scotland County: Scottish Borders Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
Nearest Town: Eyemouth Nearest Village: Coldingham
Map Ref: NT8921069130
Latitude: 55.915141N Longitude: 2.174198W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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One of a number of such along the Berwickshire coast from St Abbs Head to Dowlaw including cresenteric cliff forts, homesteads and enclosures. Probably Iron Age, possibly earlier. It lies on NT property.
For more information see Canmore ID 59800 which describes the fort/settlement as "two now D-shaped but once probably oval or circular enclosures and a later settlement .... occupying the summit of Tun Law .... The interior of the NW fort is occupied by a later settlement measuring about 55m by 30m within its bank; this in turn is overlaid by a settlement of nine stone- walled houses (from which the material dating from the mid 2nd to 4th centuries AD noted above was recovered). The SE fort measures about 65m by 35m internally; on the NW its outer rampart is probably overlain by a reconstructed section of the outer rampart of the NW fort. Subsequently the outer rampart of the SE fort was rebuilt so as to butt on to the defences of the NW fort and a third rampart was then added to the SE fort. Immediately to the SE there are the remains of at least two rectangular buildings forming two sides of an enclosure which is bounded on the E by a low bank and on the N by sea-cliffs."
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