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Hawkshaw

Unenclosed Platform Settlement(S) (Prehistoric)

Site Name Hawkshaw

Classification Unenclosed Platform Settlement(S) (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Little Dod; Chapel Burn

Canmore ID 48470

Site Number NT01NE 4

NGR NT 0844 1963

NGR Description NT 0844 1963 to NT 0875 1971

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Tweedsmuir
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT01NE 4 0844 1963 to 0875 1971

NT 085 197 & NT 087 197: Two pairs of hut platforms, 100 yds apart, lie on the E flank of Little Dod. The S pair measure 35' and 60' in width respectively, and the N pair are both 40'.

On the other side of Chapel Burn, on the N face of The Bank are six hut platforms in line. Two are 35' wide, one 40', one 45' and two 50'.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1962.

NT 0844 1963. The S pair of house platforms measure 10.0m and 18.0m in diameter. Each is slightly built up on the lower side but neither has a distinct entrance.

To the N are other slight depressions but none is characteristic of a house platform.

NT 0875 1971. On the E side of Chapel Burn just above the Fruid Reservoir are two house platforms 12.0m and 15.0m in diameter. There are other surface irregu- larities in the vicinity but none is certainly a house site. It seems likely that the remaining four houses mentioned by RCAHMS lie below the level of the new reservoir.

Surveyed at 1/10560.

Visited by OS (J P), 12 November 1974.

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Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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