Sparrow Hill
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Sparrow Hill
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Alton Cottage
Canmore ID 48335
Site Number NT00NE 18
NGR NT 09452 06489
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Moffat
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NT00NE 18 0943 0649
(NT 0944 0648) Fort (NR)
(Site of) Sparrow Hill
OS 25" map, (1905).
Remains of a camp or fort, now almost entirely defaced.
Nmae Book 1857
NT 0943 0649. Vestiges of a ploughed-out scooped enclosure are situated on the gentle NW-facing slope of Sparrow Hill. It has measured c. 30.0m in diameter over a single stony bank, slightly preserved on the S side. Its size and non-defensive situation would suggest that it had been a homestead.
Site surveyed at 1:2500.
See plan.
Visited by OS (J L D) 10 March 1972.
Homestead [NR] (remains of) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1982.
Field Visit (25 April 1990)
NT 0943 0649 NT00NE 18
The remains of this scooped settlement are poorly preserved and lie in an arable field 110m W of Alton Cottage. The settlement measures about 26m in diameter within a low inner-facing scarp on the S arc and the top edge of a low outer-facing scarp on the E, N and W.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 25 April 1990.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
