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Stirkfield
Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Stirkfield
Classification Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch(S) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 50094
Site Number NT14SW 25
NGR NT 1142 4048
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/50094
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Broughton, Glenholm And Kilbucho
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT14SW 25 1142 4048.
(Centred: NT 1142 4048) Enclosures (NR) (five shown)
OS 6" map (1968)
A group of five enigmatic circular structures which bear some resemblance to saucer barrows. The most northerly of the group consists of a circular ditch 12ft wide and up to 3ft deep, enclosing a level area 20ft in diameter. On the W side there is a gap 5ft wide in the counterscarp of the ditch and on either side of the gap faint traces of a low counterscarp bank.
Immediately to the S there is a second, unfinished, example consisting of a ditch of similar proportions, in this case forming a semicircle 22ft across, also with a 5ft gap in its counterscarp on the W.
A few feet to the S there are slight traces of what appear to be three more unfinished examples, consisting of shallow ditches, 9ft wide and not more than 1ft deep, enclosing similar areas each about 20ft in diameter.
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1962
These are generally as described. One of them bears some resemblance to a ring ditch barrow. A local woman said that her brother dug into one and uncovered a skeleton with a white stone clutched in its hand.
Visited by OS (JTT) 2 September 1964 and (SFS) 29 October 1974
NT 114 405. Ring-ditches and Cultivation Remains, Stirkfield: Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980 (colour transparencies).
Settlement of 5 ring-ditch houses.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
