Mill Rings

NT03SE 7 0849 3357.

(NT 0849 3357) Enclosure (NR)

OS 6" map, (1967).

NT 0849 3357: A sub-circular enclosure measuring c 27.0m E-W by c 26.0m. It is enclosed by a turf bank having a maximum width of c 3.5m and a max. internal height of 0.7m and a max. external height of 0.6m at the South side of the entrance. The enclosing bank is mutilated and almost obliterated on the NW. The entrance c 3.0m wide is in the E side. The interior is featureless except for a rickle of loose stones in the west half. It is probably a livestock enclosure or a large sheepfold.

Surveyed at 1/10 560.

Visited by OS(WDJ) 5 March 1964.

An enclosure of uncertain date and purpose as described.

Visited by OS(BS) 25 November 1974.

This enclosure, which is situated immediately W of the fort in the saddle between Trebetha Hill and Brown Hill, is shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map as an old sheepfold (Peeblesshire 1859, sheet xv). Its interior, however, is slightly scooped into the slope on the S, possibly indicating that it is the remains of a prehistoric settlement. Roughly circular on plan, with several facets visible along the line of its perimeter, the enclosure measures about 24m in diameter within a grass-grown stony bank up to 3m in thickness and 0.6m in height. The entrance is probably on the ENE, but the N arc has been heavily degraded, possibly as a result of later cultivation. The enclosure appears to lie in a gap in the surrounding system of broad reverse-S rig-and-furrow, but these rigs have been recultivated before the most recent phase of pasture improvement, creating a pattern of shallow grooves that probably impinge upon the N arc of the perimeter.

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH, PM) and Historic Scotland (MFTR) 21 February 2002.