Waughton

NT57NE 22 NT 56490 79910

NT 5655 7990. Oval crop marks (RAF/541/A/570: 4048-9) indicating the site of an enclosure. Nothing seen on the ground as the site was under crop at the time of visit.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 16 November 1962

Further aerial photographs have been taken by the RCAHMS, who list both a possible settlement and other cropmarks at NT 565 799.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Scheduled as east Fortune, enclosure.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 February 1994.

The complex remains of at least two settlement enclosures have been recorded as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1976, 1978, 1984, 1993, CUCAP 1966), situated at the E end of a low ridge to the SSE of Waughton.

The W settlement (NT 56425 79906) has probably been roughly oval on plan, though a complete circuit of ditch cannot be seen in the cropmarks. It measures about 100m from E to W by 75m transversely overall, and may have had two circuits of ditch, both broken by an entrance on the E. The inner lies eccentrically within the outer and may be of a different phase. In the interior there are at least three round houses, visible as incomplete arcs of ring-groove.

The E settlement (NT 56555 79909) is also oval on plan, measuring about 57m from E to W by 47m transversely within a ditch between 2m and 3m in breadth. The ditch turns outwards slightly at the entrance on the E, and there is a second possible entrance to the W. There are at least four round houses in the interior, visible as oval macular cropmarks, implying that they had a sunken floor. One of the houses intersects the ditch on the WNW. What may be a small subsidiary enclosure abuts the settlement on the ENE and this contains what may be a further round house.

Information from RCAHMS (DCC) 8 March 2005