Sunlaws
Farmstead (Medieval)
Site Name Sunlaws
Classification Farmstead (Medieval)
Canmore ID 344094
Site Number NT72NW 106
NGR NT 70200 29600
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Roxburgh
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
Field Visit (14 October 1987)
Site visited by Scottish Borders Council Archaeology Service. Information from SBC
Sbc Note
Visibility: Evidence for this site, or the origins of this site, comes from documentary sources. Nothing may be visible at this location.
Information from SBC.
Sbc Note
The original settlement may have been closer to Sunlaws Mill. This may be in the area of NT 702 296 within the current golf course. Roys Map suggests a large un-roofed building in the centre of a field east of the mill. Two smaller buildings coloured in red are located to the south-east at the crossing of two paths within a designed landscape. The OS 1st edition shows an 'old well' at NT 7016 2961 which may have been associated with an earlier structure nearby.
The names 'Sunlaes' and 'Syndlawis' appear in the 15th and 17th centuries. In the 17th century it was also known as 'Newball'. Sunlaws was recorded as a house or settlement destroyed by the Earl of Hertford in 1544. It was successively rebuilt in the 16 and 17th centuries, while a new house is recorded as being built at the start of the 18th century. This suffered fire several times over the century, once in a thatch fire. The current house dates from 1809.
Source: SBC HER (CB)
