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Tollishill Dod
Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age)
Site Name Tollishill Dod
Classification Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age)
Canmore ID 55988
Site Number NT55NW 3
NGR NT 5218 5725
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55988
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Lauder
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Berwickshire
NT55NW 3 5218 5725.
(NT 5218 5725) Old Sheepfold (NAT)
OS 6" map (1862)
An oval homestead is situated on the S edge of the summit of Tollishill Dod. Oval on plan, it measures some 90ft by 55ft within a single bank and ditch. The bank has been entirely weathered away on the SE half of the enclosure, while on the NW it is only a few inches high; it is composed of earth and small stones from the ditch. The ditch, nowhere more than 2ft deep, was presumably intended merely to drain the site, and to provide material for the bank. The entrance, in the SW, is 9ft wide and opens into a scooped court, behind which is a slightly raised house platform.
RCAHMS MS, visited 1952
When visited in 1955 and 1956, this homestead, situated on a S-facing slope, was generally as described above.
Visited by OS (JD) 13 May 1955 and (CJP) 3 October 1956
No change to the previous information.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (BS) 24 April 1979
Field Visit (28 February 1952)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project.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.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
