Standing Building Recording

Date August 2017 - July 2018

Event ID 1088798

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088798

NT 50002 09373 (centred on) Due to its extraordinary level

of preservation Stobs Camp, four miles S of Hawick, is an

internationally important WW1 site. It was an arena for

Scotland’s preparation for war and the subsequent handling

of WW1 civilian internees and military prisoners. Although

Stobs’ military connections continued up until the early

1960s, the focus of the Stobs Camp Project is the period prior

to, and during, WW1. It aims to better understand Stobs

and the role it played, to value, share and commemorate

Stobs and the people connected to it and to protect the

camp for future generations. As part of work to ensure

the physical remains are recorded the project conducted a

series of building assessments using a framework provided

by the Home Front Legacy project, a UK-wide venture that

ran throughout the First World War centenary to encourage

communities to record home front sites. Below is a summary

of these assessments undertaken August–October 2017 and

March, May and July 2018. All are located at Stobs Camp

unless specified.

NT 50332 09432 Drying Hut 1 – Rectangular single-storey

structure for drying horse tack and soldiers’ uniforms.

DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND 175

SCOT TISH BORDERS

N-facing wall 7.25m, E-facing wall 5.13m, S-facing wall 7.25m

and W-facing wall 6.42m. Single unit in plan. Constructed

from brick with a concrete rough casting outer skin. Features

include one heavy wood frame door. Access is via four

concrete steps. There are two windows, one E-facing and

one W-facing. Roof is intact but breached. A brief internal

inspection revealed metal frames used for hanging items.

Building believed to pre-date WW1.

Archive: Scottish Borders Council and NRHE (intended)

Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund (Scotland), Historic Environment

Scotland, Borders LEADER, Fallago Environment Fund and BCCF

Environmental

Andrew Jepson and Dianne Swift – Archaeology Scotland

(Source: DES, Volume 19)