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Riding Hill
Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Riding Hill
Classification Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Penveny
Canmore ID 49821
Site Number NT13NE 2
NGR NT 1636 3961
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49821
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Stobo
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT13NE 2 1636 3961.
(NT 1636 3961) Settlement (NR)
OS 6" map, (1967).
On a spur protruding S from Riding Hill, there is a settlement the lower part of which has been obliterated by a scooped homestead. The remains of the settlement which measure 140ft from N to S by about 60ft transversely, are bounded on the W,N and E by a wall which now appears partly as a turf-covered stony bank and partly as a line of debris. The interior contains three house-platforms.
The scooped homestead measures 80ft by 50ft within a wall which has been reduced in some places to a low bank and in others a mere scarp. The NE sector has been destroyed by a small quarry. The entrance on the ESE leads into a court divided by a sinuous scarp from the upper part of the interior, which is large enough to have accommodated a timber house.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1962.
A settlement and scooped homestead, though heather-and bracken-covered, surviving in good condition and as described. The hut platforms can be very easily distinguished being separated by earth and rubble banks. The homestead has a very prominent stony front build-up.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 18 August 1964 and (BS) 3 December 1974.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
