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Mitchelhill
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mitchelhill
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 250130
Site Number NT03SE 69
NGR NT 0671 3395
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/250130
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
Measured Survey (19 February 2002 - 28 March 2002)
This survey was undertaken to document an unusual large enclosure, possibly defined by a palisade, noted from aerial photographs. The enclosure and surrounding area was surveyed by RCAHMS using GPS at a scale of 1:2500. Visited by Dave Cowley, Strat Halliday, Alex Hale, Ian Parker and Julie Candy [19th, 20th, 21st February and March 28th 2002].
Field Visit (28 March 2002)
NT03SE 69 0671 3395
This farmstead is situated on a small terrace immediately to the N of Mitchelhill steading and comprises the grass-grown footings of a large rectangular building, an adjacent enclosure and possibly a second building. The large building measures 13m from ENE to WSW by 3.4m transversely within a stony bank spread to 1.2m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height. The ENE side is marked by a robber trench where the wall footings have been removed. There is a rectangular enclosure against the ENE side of the building, along the WSW side of which there is a rectangular dished area that may have been a second building. An earth and stone field bank extends along the hillside to the N of the farmstead, cut by the farm track and a quarry (NT 0674 3409, see NT03SE 73) before being lost in the improved fields beyond.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 28 March 2002