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Tweedsmuir, Quarter Knowe
Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Site Name Tweedsmuir, Quarter Knowe
Classification Natural Feature (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 49796
Site Number NT12SW 1
NGR NT 1005 2453
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49796
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Tweedsmuir
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT12SW 1 1005 2453
(NT 1005 2453) Quarter Knowe (NR)
Supposed (NAT) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map (1908)
Motte (NR)
OS 6" map (1965)
An illustration of 1790 shows two, or possibly three, of what are presumably artificial cultivation terraces on the N side of the natural mound crowned by Tweedsmuir chuch (NT12SW 2). Though these terraces have been much disturbed by the digging of graves, vestiges of one can still be seen at the foot of the slope on the N and NW, and of another, about halfway up the mound on the NW and W. The terraces are likely to be older than 1648, when the first church was erected here, Grose quoting a tradition that the mound was a "Roman work", while the ONB states that though it was supposed to be a tumulus, there is no evidence to support this, no remains having been found.
F Grose 1790; Name Book 1857; RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958.
NT 1005 2453. A natural knoll, which has been artificially terraced on its NW side. There is no evidence to suggest that it was a motte (visited by OS (EC) 1 August 1963) b) or tumulus, or that the terraces are cultivation terraces. Not an antiquity.
Visited by OS (DWR), 21 September 1972.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
