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White Meldon
Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age)
Site Name White Meldon
Classification Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age)
Canmore ID 51526
Site Number NT24SW 10
NGR NT 21530 42470
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51526
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Peebles
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT24SW 10 21530 42470.
(NT 2153 4247) Homestead (NR)
OS 6" map (1965)
This settlement is situated on the SW slopes of White Meldon, 200ft above the Meldon Burn. It measures 140ft by 110ft within a wall which has been extensively robbed to build a sheepfold which overlies it. Originally the wall was probably about 8ft in thickness, but, although, several outer facing stones are visible, no stones belonging to the inner face can now be distinguished. The entrance, on the SW, opens into a court which occupies about one-third of the available living area, while the remaining two-thirds consists of two terraces upon which timber houses presumably stood.
(Information from R W Feachem notebook 1961, 19)
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1961
The much reduced remains of a homestead rather than a settlement judging from its dimensions, otherwise as described.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (JD) 11 May 1962 and (BS) 26 September 1974
Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
