Logan Knowes
Building (17th Century), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Plantation (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Logan Knowes
Classification Building (17th Century), Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Plantation (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 49785
Site Number NT12NW 41
NGR NT 1085 2958
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49785
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT12NW 41 107 294
These monuments are visible on large scale vertical photograph (OS 71/369/084, flown 1971).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) April 1992.
Two enclosures, one of which is a plantation, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Peeblesshire 1859, sheet xix) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 20 November 2000.
A group of small enclosures at NT 1085 2958, shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991) are also depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Peeblesshire 1859, sheet xix) and annotated as a sheepfold.
Information from RCAHMS (GJW) 14 August 2001.
As part of the continuing re-survey of Tweeddale the following principal sites have been recorded:
NT 1085 2958 Deserted post-medieval settlement.
A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Biggar Museum Trust, Peeblesshire Archaeological Society.
T Ward 2000
Excavation
NT 1085 2958 Excavation has begun on this site to determine its period of occupation period. At the time of writing part of a lime-mortared random rubble building c4m wide internally and with an entrance in the northern long wall has been exposed. The walls measure 1.2m in thickness and therefore indicate a building
of 17th-century or earlier date. A floor surface of roughly placed stones includes part of a byre drain that discharged through the doorway. Fragments of red sandstone may indicate the use of dressed stonework. Apart from relatively modern items, part of an 18th-century tobacco pipe bowl and fragments of green glazed
pottery have been found. This project will investigate a series of buildings in the area. Survey shows a sheep farm with enclosures and a series of milking buchts, but the building may prove to a bastle or a tower house.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
