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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 802902
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/802902
NT73NE 22.01 centred 7571 3609
Amongst the cropmark features visible on aerial photographs of the gravel terrace at Whitmuirhaugh, there is a D-shaped enclosure backing onto the River Tweed, its arc formed by the broad discontinuous ditch that is identified in previous accounts as a promontory fort. The ditch encloses an area measuring about 190m from NNW to SSE along its chord by 100m transversely and there are at least three major breaks along its course. This form of construction is characteristic of causewayed enclosures of Neolithic date. Smith (1992) notes that flint and chert artifacts, including burins, points and scrapers, have been recovered from the area of the enclosure in the course of fieldwalking. As such, it is plotted as an interrupted-ditch enclosure on a distribution map of Neolithic monuments covering southern Scotland (RCAHMS 1997).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG), 24 April 1998.
(Listed as possible causewayed enclosure). This plough-levelled enclosure was discovered during aerial reconnaissance by CUCAP in 1936 [sic.]. It was initially interpreted as a promontory fort.
A Oswald, C Dyer and M Barber 2001.
