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Pyat Knowe
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Pyat Knowe
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 54021
Site Number NT40NE 21
NGR NT 4822 0517
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/54021
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Cavers
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT40NE 21 4822 0517.
NT482 051. A much wasted enclosure is situated on top of Pyat Knowe, just over 1000 ft OD. Oval on plan, it is formed by a bank, now incomplete and spread to 15 ft; this contains a few set boulders which show it to be the ruin of a wall 7 ft thick at base. The entrance, 10 ft wide, is in the W. Much of the NE side cannot be clearly followed in marshy ground. The interior, which measures some 215 ft from NW to SE by 140 ft transversely, is covered with very rough pasture and bog vegetation and contains no trace of any structural features.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1948
NT 4822 0517. The scant remains of this probable settlement are generally as described by the RCAHMS. The bank survives to a maximum 0.6m in height on the E side but there is no trace of an external ditch. The course of the bank could not be determined with any certainty around the NW side.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JRL) 3 December 1979
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
