Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728843

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX65SW 7 6460 5175.

(NX 64605175) Boreland Mote (NR)

OS 6" map (1910)

The motte at Boreland may have been occupied about 1150.

E S Armitage 1912

The mote-hill of Boreland is an oval artificially-scarped rocky hillock 18 to 21 feet high, its summit measuring 118 feet north to south by 80 feet east to west. On the north edge there is a stony mound 10 feet in diameter and about 1 foot high. The whole is surrounded by a ditch about 38 feet wide and 12 feet deep, within a counterscarp up to 12 feet high and broken by gaps on NE and west.

RCAHMS 1914

As described by RCAHMS. Still known as "Boreland Mote".

Visited by OS (WDJ) 29 January 1965.