Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562453
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562453
Hume village today consists of a row of buildings lining one side of the road that runs adjacent to Hume Castle. However, until the eighteenth century, it was a much larger settlement which occupied the flanks of Hume Castle and the surrounding fields.
In 1987, an archaeological survey of the area recorded eleven rectangular stone buildings, all of which are now reduced to stone footings and overgrown. In addition, there were 18 scooped and terraced areas on which further buildings once stood.
Hume Castle was once the seat of the powerful Home family and an important Border stronghold until the seventeenth century. Although the remains that are visible today date from the last period of the village's occupation, it is probable that a settlement lay here from the time of the castle's construction in the twelfth century.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
