Camp Knowe
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Camp Knowe
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Muckle Hill
Canmore ID 48355
Site Number NT00NE 6
NGR NT 06832 08009
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkpatrick-juxta
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NT00NE 6 0681 0800.
(NT 0681 0800) Camp Knowe (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1957).
There are the remains of a fort on the spur named Camp Knowe. The defences on thee W have been obliterated by the main road, and a stony mound is just recognisable round the rest of the periphery of an enclosure 154' by 147' entered apparently from the N. The W side of the interior has been considerably hollowed by excavation, and there are 2 or 3 hollows which suggest hut sites.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912
The remains consist of a circular enclosure 36.0m in diameter formed by a mutilated earth-and-stone bank now reduced to a scarp in the E. A gap in the NW is probably original. The interior has suffered from surface quarrying, and there is no evidence of any hut sites now. The nature
and purpose of this enclosure are unknown, but its non-defensive situation and weak construction, are not indicative of a fort, rather it may be a settlement.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (I A) 24 September 1973
No change to previous field report.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
See plan.
Visited by OS (T R G) 12 September 1978
Field Visit (30 June 1990)
NT 0681 0800 NT00NE 6
This settlement is situated on the edge of a natural terrace on the E flank of Muckle Hill. Oval on plan, it measures 47m from E to W by 46m transversely within a grass-covered earth-and-stone bank (spread to 5.1m in thickness, 0.2m in height internally and 0.6m in height externally). The bank, reduced to no more than a scarp on the SW and N, has been created by scooping out the interior of the enclosure around a natural, irregular rise. The entrance may have been on the S. In the interior there are a number of possible house-stances, the best preserved of which lies on the W and measures 6m in diameter. On the NW of the interior a rectangular depression (12.5m from SSW to NNE by 5m transversely) marks the position of an enclosure or building.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF), 30 July 1990.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
