Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720999

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT70NE 15 7896 0967 to 7922 0953.

(NT 7896 0967 - NT 7922 0953) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6"map, (1962).

This linear earthwork crosses the NE shoulder of Brownhart Law from the head of Hind Hope to the head of an unnamed burn which joins the Coquet at Makendon. It is traversed by Dere Street. The W end of the work is on a steep slope descending into Hind Hope, and here consists of a ditch with a bank on its downhill (SSW) side; after 85yds a gap 5yds wide occurs, and for the remaining 58yds that lie within Roxburghshire the bank is on the NNE side, the ground here being flatter. E of the Border the work is interrupted for 54yds by Dere Street and its accompanying tracks, but beyond the tracks it reappears and continues for a further 133yds before fading out in the hollow that descends to the Coquet. Its total length, over gaps, is thus 335yds.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1946.

As described above.

Visited by OS(JLD) 12 September 1960.

No change to previous information.

Revised at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS(TRG) 15 September 1976.