Broughton Knowe

NT03NE 44 0988 3899 and 0991 3900.

Two ring enclosures lying about 50ft apart. Each appears as a shallow groove, about 2ft in width and only a few inches in depth, which encloses a circular area. It was only as a result of excavations carried out by one of the Commissions's officers in 1964, that these two monuments could be classified as ring enclosures.

Investigation of the W member of the pair showed that the groove was 2ft 6ins in width and 4ins in depth, and was in fact nothing more that the area from which the original turf and subsoil had been removed to form a bank on its inner edge. The bank so formed was found to be 5ft in thickness and only 8in in height, with traces of a very shallow depression on its inner edge similar to that on the outside. The internal diameter was 30ft. The E member of the pair has a diameter of 36ft. Both sites have been disturbed by surface quarrying.

RCAHMS 1967.

There is nothing to indicate that either of these enclosures is an antiquity.

Visited by OS 11 September 1972.