Hunterheck Hill
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age), Sheepfold (19th Century)
Site Name Hunterheck Hill
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age), Sheepfold (19th Century)
Canmore ID 49724
Site Number NT10NW 3
NGR NT 10460 05560
NGR Description Centred NT 10460 05560
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49724
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Moffat
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NT10NW 3 centred 10460 05560
(NT 1046 0556) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map (1965).
See also NT10NW 33.
Fort.
D Christison 1891
Situated at the top of a steep SW-facing slope, but easily approached from the other three sides, are the remains of a sub-oval enclosure partly overlain by a modern stone-built sheep fold and field dyke. It measures 58.0m NE-SW by 40.0m transversely and consists mainly of a much mutilated and spread stony bank 6.5m wide by 0.4m high. The position and absence of further banks suggests that this is the remains of a settlement although there are now no internal structures in the relatively level interior. The entrance could not be identified. Published survey (25") revised.
Diagram
Visited by OS (RD) 5 January 1972.
Settlement [NR]
(remains of) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1989.
Scheduled as 'Hunterheck Cottages, scooped settlements 95m NNE of... the remains of a complex of two scooped settlements and two enclosures... visible as a series of earthworks covering an area around 0.19ha in extent.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 12 March 2010.
Settlement
(remains of) [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, April 2010.
Field Visit (14 March 1991)
NT 1046 0556 NT10NW 3
This scooped settlement, which is partially overlain by a sheep stell, is situated on a terrace on the W flank of Hunterheck Hill. Oval on plan, it measures 41m from E to W by 35m transversely within a robbed earth-and-stone bank (spread up to 3.5m in thickness). The interior has been levelled into the natural slope to a depth of 0.6m. The position of the entrance is unclear, but it may lie on the SSE. The interior has been partly cultivated and used as a dump for field clearance, but on the NW a pronounced arc of bank may define part of a building stance.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF), 14 March 1991.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (April 1992)
NT 1046 0556 NT10NW 3
The scooped settlement is visible on large scale vertical air photograph (OS 73/431/180, flown 1973).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), April 1992.
