Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731174

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY18NE 1 16352 89362

(NY 1635 8936) Hutton Mote (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

A truncated cone 23' high above a rocky knoll on which it is constructed, and surrounded at its base by a ditch varying in width from 28 -10' and 7 - 3' in depth. In a grant dated 1664, of part of the lands of Hutton, there is mention of the 'Mote'.

Formerly used as a beacon and signal post.

Name Book 1858; RCAHMS 1920; T L Taylor 1934.

Situated on the end of a low ridge, this motte measures 31m in diameter and is surrounded by a ditch. Soil slip and sheep-scrapes have slightly reduced the mound and covered the ditch in the E. In the NE the ditch has been extended to partially enclose a sub-rectangular platform c. 7.0m wide by c. 14.0m long. Name confirmed.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 20 December 1971.

Scheduled as 'Hutton Mote... the upstanding remains of as motte and possibly bailey...'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 March 2010.

Hutton Mote [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.