Stobs Camp, Hut At Kirk O'er Roberton

NT 50002 09373 (centred on) Due to its extraordinary level

of preservation Stobs Camp, four miles S of Hawick, is an

internationally important WW1 site. It was an arena for

Scotland’s preparation for war and the subsequent handling

of WW1 civilian internees and military prisoners. Although

Stobs’ military connections continued up until the early

1960s, the focus of the Stobs Camp Project is the period prior

to, and during, WW1. It aims to better understand Stobs

and the role it played, to value, share and commemorate

Stobs and the people connected to it and to protect the

camp for future generations. As part of work to ensure

the physical remains are recorded the project conducted a

series of building assessments using a framework provided

by the Home Front Legacy project, a UK-wide venture that

ran throughout the First World War centenary to encourage

communities to record home front sites. Below is a summary

of these assessments undertaken August–October 2017 and

March, May and July 2018. All are located at Stobs Camp

unless specified.

NT 43150 14315 Hut at Kirk O’er, Roberton –

Weatherboard hut believed to date to WW1 re-erected

at Roberton. Structure is now L-shaped to fit its new

location. Significant alterations were made in the process

including the addition of extra doors. N-facing wall 11.96m,

S-facing wall 17.75m and W-facing wall 5.77m. Building

is structurally intact but unrecognisable as a WW1 hut.

Features include five hopper-style windows S-facing, one

W-facing and two N-facing. There are two single squarehead

doors S-facing and four N-facing. The N-facing doors

appear to have been added following erection at Kirk O’er.

Corrugated iron roof.

Archive: Scottish Borders Council and NRHE (intended)

Funder: Heritage Lottery Fund (Scotland), Historic Environment

Scotland, Borders LEADER, Fallago Environment Fund and BCCF

Environmental

Andrew Jepson and Dianne Swift – Archaeology Scotland

(Source: DES, Volume 19)