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Haud Yauds
Enclosure(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Haud Yauds
Classification Enclosure(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 59813
Site Number NT86NW 2
NGR NT 8305 6880
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/59813
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Cockburnspath
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT86NW 2 8305 6880.
Approximately NT 830 687. Eleven small hut circles and one stock enclosure, measuring some 65ft by 57ft, with a hut circle on its enclosing mound, lie on either side of the Old Cambus and Coldingham road, some 200 yds E of its junction with the Dowlaw road, on a portion of the moor called the 'Haud Yauds'.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 1909.
There is a small settlement in the area at NT 830 688 (now under cultivation) consisting of the enclosure described by the RCAHMS and four hut sites. The enclosure, now much reduced, appears as a mere scarp in the S and W, and as a bank some 0.5m high in the N and E, with a hut site on its NE side. Only three of the eleven huts noted by the RCAHMS can now be identified, consisting of vague, low, turf-covered banks measuring abouv 8.5m in diameter.
Visited by OS(RD) 11 March 1966.
(Centred NT 8305 6880) Settlement (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1976).
Listed by the Society of Antiquaries surveyors as an enclosure, measuring 16.8m by 15.2m within a boulder-faced bank (1.3m in thickness) with an external ditch; attached to the NE side there is a small enclosure measuring about 4m by 5m internally. Close by there are at least three circular enclosures measuring up to 7m in diameter within low banks, but none of the others recorded by the RCAHMS can be located.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Field Visit (May 1909)
64. Hut Circles and Dyke, Old Cambus and Coldingham Road.
A collection of eleven small hut circles and one stock enclosure measuring some 65 feet by 57 feet with a hut circle on its enclosing mound, lies on either side of the Old Cambus and Coldingham road, some 200 yards east of its junction with the Dowlaw road, on a portion of the moor called the ‘Haud Yauds.’ Immediately to the west of the circles a mound can be traced for almost 200 yards running north and south. At its west side is a trench with traverses from 6 to 8 feet apart. The width of mound and trench over all is about 18 feet, and the elevation of the former above the latter some 18 inches.
RCAHMS 1915, visited May 1909.
OS Map: Ber., v. NW.
Field Visit (29 July 1952)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
