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Hopekist Rig
Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Hopekist Rig
Classification Ring Ditch House (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Hopecarton
Canmore ID 49909
Site Number NT13SW 19
NGR NT 1304 3059
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49909
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Drumelzier
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT13SW 19 1304 3059.
(NT 1304 3059) Homestead (NR)
OS 6" map, (1967).
This homestead, on the NW flank of Hopekist Rig, comprises two house platforms and a sunken court, with no surface traces of an enclosing palisade or bank. The larger platform is 33' (10.1m) in diameter, and the smaller 27' (8.2m); each has a low crescentic scarp in the NE sector. The margins of the platforms are covered with loose stones, the significance of which can only be determined by excavation. The sunken court, which lies immediately below the house-platforms, measures 38' x 25' (11.6 by 7.6m) and is excavated to a maximum depth of 6' (1.8m) on the upper side.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1956.
A homestead as described.
Visited by OS (RDL) 16 March 1964 and (BS) 25 November 1974
Field Visit (July 1989)
This homestead comprises two ring-ditch houses and a scooped yard, set on a terrace on the NW flank of Hopekist Rig. The southerly of the two houses has a stone wall on the outer lip of its ring-ditch.
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) July 1989.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
