Whitton Edge
Ring Ditch (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Whitton Edge
Classification Ring Ditch (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Hare Law
Canmore ID 58013
Site Number NT71NW 16
NGR NT 7408 1894
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/58013
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Hownam
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT71NW 16 7408 1894.
(NT 7408 1894) Cairn (NR) (remains of)
OS 25" map (1971)
Indeterminate Remains, Whitton Edge: In rough pasture on Whitton Edge, 80 yds E of the junction between Dere Street (RR 8f) and the road from Hownam and 37 yds S of the latter, there is a small circular enclosure 21 ft in diameter, bounded by a ditch, 2 ft 6 ins wide and a few inches deep. A slight outer bank occurs on the counterscarp of the ditch on the NW arc, but does not appear elsewhere on the perimeter, while there is no trace of a mound in the interior. Without excavation, it is impossible to determine the purpose of the work.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1950.
There are the remains, unsurveyable, of a grass-covered stony mound encircled by a ditch. A trench has been cut through the mound from NW to SE and the amount of stone revealed suggests that this is a robbed cairn.
Surveyed at 1:2500 (EGC 20 May 1968)
Visited by OS (DT) 28 August 1968.
Field Visit (1 December 1999)
NT71NW 16
Whitton Edge, Hare Law
Ring Cairn
NT 74080 18932
This ditched cairn lies on a broad terrace in the angle between the public road and Dere Street (NT71NW 52). The cairn is reduced to a low stony spread measuring about 6m in diameter, set within a ring-ditch about 1.7m across and 0.3m in depth, apart from on the E where it fades away to a slight depression. There are also traces of a possible external bank on the W arc. Circular cattle feed bins have been placed in the vicinity of the cairn, leaving slight earthworks composed of a low tump surrounded by a broad, shallow ditch, which are visible on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1994, C40498, C40500, C40502).
(KALE99 327)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 1 December 1999
Sbc Note (21 March 2016)
Visibility: This was the site of an archaeological monument, which may no longer be visible.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
