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Towbank Plantation
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Towbank Plantation
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 56873
Site Number NT61NE 8
NGR NT 6917 1719
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Oxnam
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT61NE 8 6917 1719.
(NT 6918 1721) Settlement - presumed Early Iron Age or Native in Roman Period.
Information from private 6"map, RCAHMS 319/1069 1970.
Site cancelled on investigation - seen on air photographs - and
omitted from inventory.
Information from RCAHMS 1967, and from RAF photographs: UK 121: 4328-9.
NT 6917 1719 What appear to be the remains of a homestead are situated in dense afforestation in a low-lying position near the bottom of a gradual SE-facing slope. The remains consist of a small sub-rectangular enclosure, bounded by a grass-covered stony bank 0.5m high, now destroyed on the south side, containing a single hut.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS(RD) 23 January 1967.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
