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Skirling Mains
Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Skirling Mains
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 48603
Site Number NT03NE 27
NGR NT 0692 3795
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48603
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Skirling
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT03NE 27 0692 3795.
(NT 069 379) On low-lying ground, 300 yds SW of Skirling Mains farmhouse, and 27 yds E of the left bank of the Spittal Burn, a sub-rectangular enclosure with an annexe on its E side appears as a cropmark on National Survey air photographs. The enclosure, which measures internally about 200ft by 160ft, is bounded by a ditch represented on the photography by a dark line about 10ft in width.
There is an entrance about 12ft wide in the middle of the W side. The annexe is trapezoidal on the plan, with maximum internal measurements of about 220ft by 130ft. It is bounded by a ditch, represented on the photographs by a somewhat narrower line than the enclosure ditch, and has an entrance near the NE corner. Direct access between the enclosure and the annexe was probably provided by a gap in the E side of the enclosure ditch. Several short dark lines which appear on the photograph in both the enclosure and the annexe may indicate timber buildings.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1957.
There are no surveyable remains of this enclosure.
Visited by OS(RD) 27 July 1972.
Sbc Note (21 March 2016)
Visibility: This was the site of an archaeological monument, which may no longer be visible.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
Previously also listed under duplicate site NT96SW 510 -CANCELLED. HES (LCK) 11.6.2024
