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Heugh
Enclosure (Prehistoric)
Site Name Heugh
Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Blythe
Canmore ID 55829
Site Number NT54NE 5
NGR NT 5806 4849
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55829
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Lauder
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Berwickshire
NT54NE 5 5806 4849.
(NT 5806 4849) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map (1908)
Cliff Fort, Heugh: This semi-circular fort is situated on the E side of the Blythe Water, some 650ft OD. Its chord rests on the edge of the steep bank above the stream; is is some 246ft long, while the bisectional diameter is about 120ft. It is bounded by a single, much ruined, stone rampart, still 6ft high at the N end and 18ft wide at the base. The entrance is indefinite, but was probably at the S end. The level interior is raised a few feet above the field to the E, and there is no parapet to the scarp, but at the ends of the base, considerable mounds, with a trench at the S end, cut off the site from the continuation of the bank edge. In the rear of the scarp to the N there is a row of four squarish slight hollows, and a platform or roadway 12ft in width.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1908; D Christison 1895
A small, stony enclosure as described. Rampart mutilated on the S by quarrying. A short ditch on the S appears natural. The interior of the enclosure slopes gently downwards to the E. The rampart measures 1.8m
in height externally, 0.7m internally. It is situated on the edge of a small, steep escarpment.
Visited by OS (JD) 30 April 1955
Generally as described by the previous authorities. Running parallel at a distance of 4.0m to the interior side of the rampart is a scarp 0.4m high which gives the effect of a terrace but may be the result of quarrying. The entrance, in the SE, is indistinct. Two slight depressions filled with stones are all that remain of the hollows mentioned by Christison.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RDL) 5 October 1962
(NT 5806 4849) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
Field Visit (12 August 1908)
221. Cliff Fort, Heugh.
Situated on the east side of the Blythe Water, about 200 yards above its junction with the Brunta Burn, and some 650 feet above sea-level, is a semi-circular cliff fort (fig. 109 [DP 229118]) with its chord resting on the edge of the steep bank' above the ·stream. The length of the chord in the interior is some 246 feet, and the bisectional diameter some 120 feet. It is bounded by a single rampart of stone, much demolished, but still 6 feet high at the north end and18 feet wide at base. The entrance is indefinite, but was probably at the south end.
See Antiquaries, xxix. p. 138.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 12th August 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xx. NW.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
