Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725111

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT96NW 4 9021 6842.

(NT 9021 6842) Fort (NR)

OS 6"map, Berwickshire, 2nd ed., (1908).

A small oval enclosure with a deep depression in the centre, and surrounded by a single rampart with an entrance in the NE (see RCAHMS 1915 plan, fig.47).

RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908; D Christison 1895.

Enclosure: The much spread earth-and-stone bank encloses an area some 28.0m E-W by 22.0m transversely; it is 0.7m high. In the S corner are faint traces of a possible hut site measuring about 10.0m in diameter. The entrance is in the E. This would appear to be a homestead.

Visited by OS(JLD) 3 November 1954.

As described in the previous field report.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS(RD) 8 March 1966.

(NT 9021 6842) Homestead (NR)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).

This D-shaped enclosure, which is possibly a homestead, is situated at the foot of a low knoll; it measures 25m by 23m within a stony bank up to 4m thick and 0.6m high. The entrance is on the ESE.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.