Excavation

Date March 2011 - January 2013

Event ID 994188

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NT 6111 5885 A programme of archaeological work was carried out, March 2011 – January 2013, on an access road leading to Fallago Rig Wind Farm in the upper River Dye valley at the confluence with Kersons Cleugh. Two well defined small buildings were investigated and a third trench examined what may have been the remains of a third.

The first structure measured 5.6 x 3.1m internally. Most of the internal area was of beaten earth but that closest to the entrance and the NE-facing entrance passage itself was paved. The wall was poorly defined but consisted of an earth bank with a stone capping. The second structure measured 6 x 3.6m internally. The SE portion of the internal area was paved but there was no clear entrance. The wall was of dry stone construction with a deposit of orange silt banked against the external face. The third trench contained at least three walls and a ditch but they did not represent a third building. Finds included loom weights, spindle whorls, a glass bead and a sherd of pottery which suggest a 7th- to 9th-century date for the settlement. An assemblage of lithics may indicate an earlier presence on the site.

Several watching briefs took place during the period of construction work. Five possible fire pits and a possible track were the only archaeological features identified.

Archive: RCAHMS and Scottish Borders Council HER (intended)

Funder: Wind Prospect Ltd

Ian Suddaby, CFA Archaeology Ltd, 2013

(Source: DES)