Soutra Aisle

NT45NE 2 453 584.

(NT 4540 5830) Deserted Mediaeval Village of Soutra (Site of) (NAT)

OS 6" map (1964)

The Statistical Account [OSA] notes that Soutra seemed formerly to have been a very considerable village, of which only two or three cottages remained. By 1852, there were only a few undulations left, marking the site of the village.

OSA 1794; Name Book 1852

Beside Soutra Aisle (NT45NE 1), crop marks reveal the foundations of another buiding, probably also medieval, but on the level ground N and NE of the Aisle are a number of lines of ditch, one circular (see NT45NE 10). Excavation alone can show if they formed part of the medieval village known to have existed here.

J K St Joseph 1955

There is nothing to be seen of this village in ground under cultivation.

Visited by OS (BS) 31 July 1975.