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Hangingshaw Sike
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age)
Site Name Hangingshaw Sike
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Scooped Settlement (Middle Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Hangingshaw Hill
Canmore ID 58128
Site Number NT71SE 7
NGR NT 7642 1341
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/58128
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Hownam
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT71SE 7 7642 1339.
(NT 7642 1341) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962).
This scooped enclosure is situated on the W slope of Hangingshaw Hill. Its lower part consists of a scooped court, 70' by 40' and 7' in depth, scarped at the back and walled in front. The wall, a stony bank with two gaps in the W side, runs up to the back of the court on the N side, while on the S side it borders a passage 20' in width which runs up to another court about 35' in diameter. The rest of the enclosure has been ploughed away. In the N part of the lower court the foundations of a building, 42' in length by 9' and 7' in width at the N and S ends respectively, are marked out by large stones somewhat widely spaced. RCAHMS, visited 1947.
This 'enclosure', which is as described, is a habitation site of the scooped homestead class.
Visited by OS (JLD) 11 August 1960 and (DWR) 25 July 1973.
No change to the previous information.
Visited by OS (BS) 8 September 1976.
Field Visit (21 October 1999)
NT71SE 7
Hangingshaw Sike
NT 7642 1342
Scooped Settlement; Farmstead
Hownam ph.
This scooped settlement is situated in rough pasture on the SSW flank of Hangingshaw Hill. Roughly oval on plan, it measures 33m from E to W by 30m transversely internally.
The settlement is defined on the E (where it has been levelled into the slope) by no more than a scarp but elsewhere by a stone-faced bank which measures 2.2m in thickness and up to 1m in height on the NNW where it is best preserved. The bank is broken on the W by two gaps, the more northerly of which has probably been the entrance.
A scarp 1.8m high divides the interior into two portions of roughly equal size. The lower (W) portion has been a yard and within it there are the fragmentary footings of a rectangular building. The upper (E) portion is largely obscured by a dense growth of bracken but within it there are the fragmentary footings of a further two rectangular buildings.
(KALE99 153)
For the unenclosed settlement 120m to the ENE see NT71SE 76.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, DCC), 21 October 1999.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
