Archaeology Notes

Event ID 797406

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT73NE 22.00 758 362.

NT73NE 22.01 7571 3609 Fort; Causewayed Enclosure (possible); Flints

NT73NE 22.02 7581 3599 Barrow; Building (possible); Mortuary Enclosure (possible); Timber Hall (possible)

For enclosure at NT 760 357, see NT73NE 23.

(Location cited as NT 758 362). Dark Age settlement, Sprouston, Roxburghs. Crop marks of timber halls, cemetery, etc.

CUCAP imagery:

AKC 24-9, flown 22 July 1964

BEE 33-4 and K 17 W 165-6, flown 2 August 1970

BFZ 66-75, flown 8 July 1971

BHC 65-76 and K 17 Y 234-6, flown 1 August 1971

BJV 50-5, flown 19 July 1972

BJY 47-53, flown 20 July 1972

BKC 70-2, flown 26 July 1972

70H-Z 4-6, flown 17 July 1974

BQN 1-3, flown 20 July 1974

BQY 96-7 and BQZ 2-3, flown 31 July 1974

BUQ 66-7, flown 19 July 1975

CCE 5-8, flown 6 May 1977

CDS 31-4, flown 30 July 1977

[Undated] information in NMRS, CUCAP card index.

NT 758 362: Dark Age Settlement, Whitmuirhaugh: A complex site is revealed at Whitmuirhaugh by cropmarks on aerial photographs taken over a number of years by the RCAHMS and by Dr St Joseph (see N Reynolds plan). From the wide ditch of a promontory fort [see NT73NE 22.01], which cuts off the 30m contour overlooking the River Tweed, there extends a large complex of enclosures and ditches, in the centre of which lie several rectangular buildings, at least two of them with annexes at each end, closely comparable with the Anglo-Saxon hall at Yeavering in Northumberland. To the SE there lies what appears to be a cemetery; the outline of nearly every grave can be seen on some of the aerial photographs.

N Reynolds 1980.

'Air photographs have revealed, adjacent to the present farm buildings, a timber building with 'V' gable ends [see NT73NE 22.02], which both in form and size is similar to the neolithic timber hall at Balbridie, Kincardine.

Fieldwork confirmed that the promontory fort to the N of the farm is multi-vallate. Finds retrieved during systemic fieldwalking of the area include large numbers of flint and chert scrapers, pottery, bone and iron objects.'

See NT73NE 22.02.

I M Smith 1981.