Foulden
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Foulden
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) New Farm; No 9 Kirkbanny; Deans Burns
Canmore ID 60048
Site Number NT95NW 20
NGR NT 92464 56572
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60048
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Foulden
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT95NW 20 NT 92464 56572
NT 924 565. The site of a strongly defended settlement, measuring about 70m by 50m within double ditches, has been revealed by cropmarks 350m W of New Farm. A ditch about 2m broad partly enclosures an area of about 1 hectare to the W and S of the settlement. Nothing is visible on the ground.
(Listed in the RCAHMS Catalogue of A Ps as 'Fort and Enclosure')
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Scheduled as 'No 9 Kirkbanny, settlement 360m W of... the remains of at least two enclosures and associated features interpreted as [a] multi-phased settlement dating to the later prehistoric period, visible as linear cropmarks on cultivated land... between 115m and 120m above sea level, 740m west of Deans Burns.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 January 2009.
Note (18 February 2016 - 31 August 2016)
This fort or fortified settlement is situated on the southern margin of a broad elevated plateau above a long slope descending towards Foulden on the S. The interior of the fort is probably marked by a shallow depression in the surface of the field, but the defences are known only from cropmarks and comprise two ditches, the inner some 4m in breadth and the outer, lying 5m outside it, no more than 2m. On plan they enclose a subrectangular area measuring 60m from NNE to SSW by 55m transversely (0.3ha). Allowing for the presence of the inner rampart, the scar of which is visible on the aerial photographs, the interior encloses about 0.21ha and is served by roughly opposed entrances on the ESE and W respectively. Within the interior the cropmarks reveal a palisaded enclosure about 45m in diameter and roughly coincident with the fringes of the shallow internal scoop. In addition, there is a much larger rectangular enclosure around the fort measuring at least 155m from ESE to WNW by 115m transversely within a ditch no more than 2m broad; its date and purpose are unknown.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 31 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4121
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site is visible as a cropmark.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
