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Chesterlees
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Chesterlees
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 48814
Site Number NT04NE 13
NGR NT 0970 4660
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48814
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Dolphinton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NE 13 0970 4660.
(NT 0970 4660) Enclosure (NR) (remains of)
OS 25" map (1973)
Enclosure, Chesterlees: Some slight remains of an enclosure, which has measured about 67m by 33.5m internally, are situated at a height of 290m OD on a rocky knoll 300m N of Kirkhouse farmhouse. Extensive quarrying has destroyed large sections of the wall and has removed much of the interior, while on the WSW a further stretch of the wall has been obliterated by ploughing. On the NE and SW, however, the wall survives as a stony bank about 3.7m thick and 0.6m in greatest height; there is an entrance. 2.4m wide, on the NE. A lead whorl, 2.4cm in diameter,
from here is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no: BE 558).
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1969; NMAS Card Index
This enclosure is generally as described by the RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 20 July 1971
