Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Pricing Change

New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered. 

 

Archaeology Notes

Event ID 710047

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710047

NT04NE 13 0970 4660.

(NT 0970 4660) Enclosure (NR) (remains of)

OS 25" map (1973)

Enclosure, Chesterlees: Some slight remains of an enclosure, which has measured about 67m by 33.5m internally, are situated at a height of 290m OD on a rocky knoll 300m N of Kirkhouse farmhouse. Extensive quarrying has destroyed large sections of the wall and has removed much of the interior, while on the WSW a further stretch of the wall has been obliterated by ploughing. On the NE and SW, however, the wall survives as a stony bank about 3.7m thick and 0.6m in greatest height; there is an entrance. 2.4m wide, on the NE. A lead whorl, 2.4cm in diameter,

from here is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no: BE 558).

RCAHMS 1978, visited 1969; NMAS Card Index

This enclosure is generally as described by the RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 20 July 1971

People and Organisations

References