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Headshaw
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Headshaw
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 54536
Site Number NT45NE 13
NGR NT 48958 55510
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/54536
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Channelkirk
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Berwickshire
NT45NE 13 NT 48958 55510
Cropmarks on air photographs (106G/Scot/UK9: 5202-3) reveal the double ditches of a fort on the crest of a spur 300 yds N of Headshaw farm. The fort has been oval on plan and has measured internally about 250' NE-SW by 200'.
RCAHMS MSS 1951
NT 4896 5551. A round-topped hill with no trace of any artificial work around it.
Visited by OS (BS) 31 July 1975
Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1976, 1983, 1990 and 1995.
Note (27 February 1951)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Note (12 January 2016 - 17 August 2016)
Cropmarks have revealed an oval fort on the rounded summit of the hill N of Headshaw. It measures about 100m from ENE to WSW by 80m transversely (0.6ha) within two ditches up to 3m broad and set some 10m apart; making some allowance for the presence of an inner rampart, the interior extends to about 0.55ha. The cropmarks are not particularly well-defined and the positions of any entrances are unknown; the interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 17 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3936
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site is visible as a cropmark.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
