Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720630

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT74SW 10 704 413.

Though the village of Hume now only consists of a single row of cottages, in ancient times it was of considerable extent, the houses extending as far as the present churchyard (NT 700 407), while others surrounded the castle (NT74SW 3, at NT 704 413).

Name Book 1858.

NT 704 413. Around the flanks of the rocky hillock on which Hume Castle stands, and in the pasture field immediately to the SW, there are remains of eleven rectangular stone buildings and eighteen rectilinear scoops and terraces, the majority of which may indicate the sites of houses. There was a large village at Hume in the mid-18th century and while many of these remains are probably of this date, some are likely to be earlier.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.