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Adie's Brae
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Adie's Brae
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 48497
Site Number NT01SE 5
NGR NT 07083 11712
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
NT01SE 5 0709 1170.
(NT 0709 1170) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962)
A dotted oval 290' x 180', marks the site of this 'fort' on OS plans.
D Christison 1891
The slight remains of a levelled enclosure which measures 48.0m N-S by 40.0m and consists of a low bank, spread to 7.5m and 0.7m high, on the S and W sides and a slight inner scarp to the N. The entrance is in the SE corner and has been utilised by a later hollow way. The remains are too vague for positive interpretation, but they probably represent a scooped settlement.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (IA) 7 September 1973
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (JRL) 18 August 1978
Field Visit (16 February 1991)
NT 0706 1170 NT01SE 5
Situated at the S end of a ridge that runs from NNW to SSE, there are the wasted remains of an oval scooped settlement which measures internally 45m from NW to SE by 36m transversely. The enclosing wall cannot be traced on the N and, elsewhere, it has been reduced to a low turf-covered bank. The entrance lies on the SE and has been reused in recent times as part of a trackway. No features are visible in the interior, which has been levelled to a depth of 1.2m into the hill slope.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 16 February 1991.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
