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Clerk Hill

Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric)

Site Name Clerk Hill

Classification Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Clerk Hill 2

Canmore ID 67254

Site Number NY29NE 31

NGR NY 2566 9817

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Eskdalemuir
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NY 2566 9817. The detail of this timber house site is too slight for inclusion on the large scale survey plan.

Visited by OS (MJF), 27 August 1981.

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Field Visit (June 1980)

Clerk Hill 2 NY 256 981 NY29NE 31 About 200 SSE of the unenclosed settlement NY29NE 30 there is a ring-ditch house measuring 10.8m in diameter over a ditch up to 2.4m in breadth and 0.15m in depth; the entrance was probably on the S.

RCAHMS 1980, visited June 1980

Note (1997)

NY 294 905 NY29SE 31

Listed as timber round-houses.

RCAHMS 1997.

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