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Swindon Hill
Palisaded Enclosure (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Swindon Hill
Classification Palisaded Enclosure (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 59114
Site Number NT81NW 86
NGR NT 84329 19105
NGR Description From NT 84208 19126 to NT 84256 19080
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/59114
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Morebattle
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT81NW 86 from 84208 19126 to 84256 19080
The slight remains of a palisaded enclosure occupy a spur on the NE flank of Swindon Hill overlooking moderately steep to steep ground falling away to the E and NE. Much of the palisade-trench is lost in the marshy ground towards the W end of the enclosure. What survives suggests an enclosure measuring some 32m in diameter within a single palisade-trench averaging 1.2m in width and 0.15m in depth. There is a possible entrance, 4m wide, on the SSE angle beyond which faint traces of a second palisade-trench, only 10m long, lie 5m outside on the SW. Both within the enclosure and over the marshy ground to the W, there are up to eight sub-circular shallow depressions each open to the E, possibly representing house-platforms. The three clear depressions within the projected circuit of the palisade range from 7m to 11m in diameter.
Information from RJ Mercer (University of Edinburgh) 16 March 1986
RCAHMS MS 2598. No. 35/476
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
