Broomrig
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Broomrig
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kiloran
Canmore ID 54757
Site Number NT46NW 6
NGR NT 42644 68937
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/54757
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Pencaitland
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT46NW 6 NT 42644 68937
(NT 42636891) Earthwork (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1970)
A large earthwork with double ditches appears as a cropmark (RAF AP's CPE/Scot/UK277: 5309-10; 106G/Scot/UK140: 5020) on the crest of a minor ridge 1/4 mile W of Broomrig. The inner ditch, which appears to be 20ft broad at some points, encloses a nearly square area measuring 280ft. along each axis; three of the sides are practically straight while the fourth (E) side is sightly out-curved. The outer ditch runs more or less parallel to the first, but is separated from it by a distance varying from 30ft on the S to 100ft on the E and N. An entrance can be seen directly through both ditches in the centre of the E side of the earthwork.
RCAHMS MS 1954
This is a settlement; the sites of houses are visible on air photograph.
J K St Joseph 1967
Although nothing can be seen on the ground, the site, as described was probably that of a settlement.
Site surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 21 January 1971
This settlement is close in form to those Iron Age settlements found on the coastal plain of SE Northumberland. Additional air photographs have been taken of it by the RCAHMS.
H Welfare 1980; N McCord and G Jobey 1971
Further aerial photographs taken in 1980 and 1995.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (7 November 1954)
A large earthwork with double ditches on the crest of a minor ride a quarter of a mile W of Broomrig. The inner ditch, which appears to be as much as 20ft broad at some points, encloses nearly a square area measuring 280 ft along each axis; three of the sides are practically straight while the fourth, or E, side is slightly out-curved. The outer ditch runs more or less parallel to the first, but is separated from it by a distance varying from 30 ft on the S side to 100 ft on the E and N sides. An entrance can be seen directly through both ditches in the centre of the E side of the earthwork (1).
(1) 106G Scot UK 140, 5020
Information from RCAHMS (KAS) 7 November 1954
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.
