<< Our Photo Pages >> Southdean Law - Hillfort in Scotland in Scottish Borders
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Southdean LawCountry: Scotland County: Scottish Borders Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Jedburgh Nearest Village: Chesters
Map Ref: NT63500938
Latitude: 55.377034N Longitude: 2.577543W
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 |
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Southdean Law, the earliest remains are a bivallate Early Iron Age fort (50x32m) to which an annex was added later. On the north-east side the fort is partially overlaid by a settlement of eleven houses with some associated enclosures, it has been assumed that these houses date to around 2nd-4thCenturyAD. The fort is located on the western end of a ridge that is Southdean Law.
The fort is surrounded by rig cultivation, and there are a couple of possible cairns/ burial mounds (not recorded by RCAHMS) on the ridge outside of the fort.
Access/Parking: if approaching on the A6088 from Chesters, you pass Southdean on your right, next you pass a quarry on your left, just beyond the quarry (150m) there is space on the verge (NT 6365 0907) on the left to park without blocking the field entrances. Then head up the hill with the quarry on your left.
see: canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/56826/details/southdean+law
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