Field Visit
Date 2 June 1954
Event ID 926119
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Earthwork, 'Green Castle', Newlands, (Inv. No. 46).
The Inventory plan is accurate, but there is some doubt whether it should be accepted as a hill-fort. At first glance it might be thought to be medieval, on the analogy of Iron Castle, Roxburghshire, but the resemblance is not very close and may be illusory. It is in fact dificult to believe that medieval builders would have continued the outer rampart on the opposite bank of the Newlands Burn where it provides excellent cover for raiders. I am inclined to accept the work as of early Iron Age date although the small circular 'structures' referred to in the Inventory are not convincing and are in any case too small for huts.
Visited by RCAHMS (KAS) 2 June 1954.