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Greenfield
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Greenfield
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Greenfield, Camp Field Fort; Hilltops
Canmore ID 60079
Site Number NT95NW 5
NGR NT 94757 57902
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60079
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Foulden
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT95NW 5 94757 57902
Camp Field Fort is situated on a knoll, c. 800 yds SE of Greenfield Farm. It comprises an almost circular single rampart 79 yds in diameter, which has been nearly obliterated by cultivation. The ground falls steeply to the SE and a wide view is commanded in this direction.
R Kinghorn 1935.
NT 9473 5791. A circular, nearly level area, on top of a knoll, bounded by the un-surveyable traces of a bank, is the only indication of an enclosure in this area.
The name could not be confirmed.
Visited by OS (JP) 26 November 1970.
Listed.
RCAHMS 1980.
Scheduled as 'Hilltops, settlement 530m N of... the remains of [a] bivallate enclosed settlement of probable later prehistoric date, visible as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs [and] located at 190m above sea level on a gentle S-facing slope...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 16 February 2009.
Note (18 February 2016 - 18 May 2016)
First observed by Robert Kinghorn when it had already been largely ploughed down (1935, 164-5, fig 5), the site of this fort has subsequently been revealed by cropmarks, occupying a low hillock on a SW-facing hillside SE of Greenfield. Although Kinghorn noted only a traces of a single rampart, the cropmarks show that the defences were bivallate, with two concentric ditches set between 5m and 7m apart. Both are in excess of 4m in breadth and they enclose an oval area measuring 72m from ESE to WNW by 55m transversely (0.3ha); allowing for the presence of an inner rampart, the interior enclosed about 0.23ha. This is a little smaller than the figure of '79 yards in diameter' (72m) measured by Kinghorn, probably from NW to SE, and suggests that the traces of the rampart that he observed lay between the two ditches. No clear evidence of structures can be discerned within the interior, and nor are there any clearly-defined causeways across the ditches, though an irregularity in the line of the inner on the N almost certainly indicates the presence of an entrance here or a little further E, a sector that is otherwise obscured by edge effects in the field and the old shelter belt adjacent.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4120
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site is visible as a cropmark.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
