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Field Visit
Date July 1993
Event ID 1150229
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1150229
NY 3045 8834 NY38NW 2
A large oval ditched settlement, overlain by a small, scooped settlement, is situated on a narrow terrace on the NE flank of Shaw Hill. The earlier settlement measures about 70m from NW to SE by 53m transversely within twin banks and a medial ditch; the inner bank is up to 7m thick and 1m high, the ditch is 5.5m broad and 1m deep, and the outer bank (which is not present on the uphill, SW, side) is up to 4m thick and 0.5m high. At the entrances, on the NW and NE respectively, the banks return around the ends of the ditch to form hairpin terminals; a possible third entrance, on the SE, has been mutilated by a later track. Within the SE part of the interior there are the remains of at least three circular or oval timber-house platforms measuring up to 7m in diameter.
The scooped settlement occupies the NW quadrant of the interior and measures about 30m from NW to SE by 26m internally. Its perimeter reuses the inner bank of the earlier settlement on the N and W, while on the S and E it has been reduced by robbing to a low stony spread up to 4.5m thick and 0.6m high. However, the position of the entrance gap is clearly visible on the E, and from this a hollowed track, which effectively bisects the interior, leads towards the rear of the settlement. Within the SW part of the interior, which has been levelled into the slope at the rear, the positions of two circular house-platforms are indicated by low scarps.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), July 1993.
Listed as defended settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
