Logan Wood

NT13SW 26 1319 3344.

(NT 1319 3344) Settlement (NR)

OS 6" map, (1967).

On the N flank of Logan Head is an oval earthwork, the NW part of which lies in a plantation. The earthwork measures 130ft by 110ft within a stony bank, the material for which has been obtained, in part at least, from an external quarry-ditch. On the NW the ditch was probably obliterated when the trees were planted. The bank stands to a maximum height of 3ft 6ins above the interior, and measures about 20ft in thickness at the base. The entrance, on the NE, has been mutilated by the construction of two short lengths of turf wall, while secondary turf-walled enclosures occur on the S sector of the ditch and in the interior. The date and purpose of four small platforms in the E part of the interior are uncertain, as they are too small to have accommodated timber houses.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1957.

As described. The four platforms referred to can no longer be identified but the earthwork is probably a settlement.

Re-surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS(RDL) 16 March 1964 and (IA) 1 September 1972.

As part of the continuing re-survey of Tweeddale the following principal sites have been recorded:

NT 1312 3345 Settlement with buchts appended.

A full report has been lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsors: Biggar Museum Trust, Peeblesshire Archaeological Society.

T Ward 2000