Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714041

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT33NW 7 3247 3677.

(NT 3247 3677) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map (1964)

This settlement is as described (RCAHMS 1967). Only four house-platforms are visible.

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 4 July 1961 and (JP) 10 September 1973

NT 324 367. A watching brief was carried out at the NE entrance of this scheduled fort (NMRS no. NT33NW 7). This was to monitor the removal of spoil which had accidently been deposited in the ditch terminals after recent construction work at the adjacent communications compound. The spoil was removed by hand and transported by mini-digger away from the site. The earthworks were not damaged and the site was left in a tidy condition. A flake of struck quartz was recovered from a molehill c.30m S of the communications compound.

Sponsor: National Transcommunications Limited

D Alexander 1995.

Scheduled as 'Caerlee Hill, fort... the remains of a prehistoric defended settlement visible as upstanding earthworks'.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 March 2004.

NT 3254 3683 A watching brief was carried out in July 2003 on the site of a proposed extension to a telecommunications transmitter station near Caerlee hillfort. No archaeological remains were found.

Report lodged with Scottish Borders SMR and the NMRS.

Sponsor: ntl Group Ltd.

M Kirby