Tronshaw Hill
Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Tronshaw Hill
Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 57988
Site Number NT71NE 7
NGR NT 780 180
NGR Description Centred NT 780 180
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Hownam
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT71NE 7 centred 780 180.
Centred NT 780 180. Cultivation terraces, on the N, NE and E slopes of Trenshaw Hill, from the enclosed fields S of Hewnam to W of Greenhill.
RCAHMS 1956.
Lynchets. (Photo 708).
OS 6"map, annotated by O G S Crawford 26 June 1934.
Numerous wasted terraces with a maximum scarp of 1.0m.
Visited by OS (RD) 23 May 1968.
An extensive spread of cultivation terraces and lynchets covering approximately 50 hectares, the working are is up to 2.0m wide. Much of the hill-slope is now under bracken cover. (Visible on RAF air photographs: 106G/Scot/UK 121: 4341, flown 1946). Not outstanding examples. (also visible on OS 68/024/6-9, 69-70, flown 1968)
Visited by OS (MJF) 30 October 1979.
Field Visit (March 2000)
NT71NE 7
Tronshaw Hill
Rig and Furrow; Cultivation Terraces
NT 780 180
Hownam
Rig and furrow extends over an area of approximately 80ha in total, around Tronshaw Hill and overlies the cultivation terraces recorded in previous surveys. There is a wide arc of broad curvilinear rig, extending over about 40ha from the NW to the E slopes of Tronshaw Hill, which is generally aligned along the contours. To the SSE and S of Tronshaw Hill the broad curvilinear rig, which extends for a further 30ha, is also aligned along the contours; it is defined by both deep furrows and shallow grooves, and is subdivided by the latter. On the W of Tronshaw Hill there are several smaller areas of similar broad curvilinear rig and furrow.
Visible on vertical aerial photographs OS 68/024/069
Information from RCAHMS (MFTR) March 2000
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
