Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725631

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX64NW 3 6036 4857.

(NX 6036 4857) Roberton Moat (NR).

OS 6" map (1957)

This motte rises abruptly from the SE bank of the Pulwhirrin Burn. Its lower portion is apparently rock, on top of which the motte has been made up and levelled, rising 18-20' above the bottom of a surrounding ditch. The summit is roughly oblong in shape, measuring 91' E-W by 44' transversely. From the side of the burn on the NE and some 6' above the water, a deep trench, partially rock-cut, carries round the hillock to the opposite side, about 10' deep below the counterscarp, and 40-50' wide across the top. At the SE angle, a hollow leads up out of this ditch to the higher level.

RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911; R W Feachem 1956; F R Coles 1893

Roberton Moat is a motte generally as described. The hollow in the SE angle is a later mutilation.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (RD) 2 February 1971.