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Great Hill
Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Great Hill
Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 49759
Site Number NT12NW 18
NGR NT 1162 2699
NGR Description Centred NT 1162 2699
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49759
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Tweedsmuir
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT12NW 18 centred 1162 2699.
(Centred NT 116 269) The banks and ditches in the policies of Polmood House are probably not linear earthworks in the sense of ancient monuments, but there are some cultivation terraces behind the policies and adjoining farmlands at the base of the slopes of Great Hill.
RCAHMS MSS., visited 1948
NT 1162 2699: Only one possible cultivation terrace was noted at the base of the NW slopes of Great Hill. At 1160 2696 a short scarp runs NE from the stone field dyke for a distance of c. 25m. The scarp is 0.7m high and spread to a width of 3.0m but shows no trace of revetting. To the S of this scarp is a level expanse c. 20m wide.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 July 1963
As described. A poor example of a cultivation terrace.
Visited by OS (DWR) 19 September 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
