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Rough-hope Rig
Linear Earthwork (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rough-hope Rig
Classification Linear Earthwork (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 55183
Site Number NT50SE 1
NGR NT 5853 0456
NGR Description From NT 5853 0456 to NT 5884 0486
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55183
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Southdean
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT50SE 1 5853 0456 to 5884 0486.
Linear Earthwork, Rough-hope Rig. This work appears to be a head-dyke forming the SE boundary of ground formerly under cultivation, but it must be of considerable age as it has largely sunk into the peat where it crosses a mossy area. It is now 440 yds. long and runs from above the right bank of Wigg Burn, opposite Deep Cleuch, to the Hobkirk - Newcastleton road 220 yds. SSE of Piet's Nest; but no doubt it originally extended NE of the road as well, probably as far as the Hyndlee Burn. Where it is traversed by an old road (RCAHMS 1956 No. 118) it consists of a bank, ditch, and spoil-bank, and is 31 ft. broad over all.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
