Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728815

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX67SE 3 6939 7091.

(NX 6939 7091) Boreland Mote (NR)

OS 6" map (1958)

A motte (R W Feachem 1956) formed from a natural rocky hillock situated in an angle of the Boreland Burn and defended by the burn on the North and East. A ditch with an external rampart around the base of the hillock defends the West and South approaches. The entrance is in the SE where the ditch stops short of the natural slopes at the edge of the burn (RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911).

Revised at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 8 December 1969