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Catch-a-penny
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Catch-a-penny
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Catch-a-penny House; Lamberton Smallholdings
Canmore ID 60184
Site Number NT96SE 6
NGR NT 95803 60110
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/60184
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Ayton
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Berwickshire
- Former County Berwickshire
NT96SE 6 95803 60110
NT 958 601. A settlement is revealed by cropmarks immediately S of Catch-a-penny; oval on plan, it measures about 60m by at least 35m within two concentric ditches set about 7m apart. In the interior there is the site of at least one circular house 11m in diameter.
RCAHMS 1980.
Scheduled as Catch-a-penny House, settlement 135m SSW of... an oval enclosure visible as a cropmarks on aerial photographs [and] interpreted as the site of a later prehistoric enclosed settlement [situated] in a gently sloping field at 140m above sea level.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 20 February 2009.
Note (19 February 2016 - 20 October 2016)
What is probably a fortified settlement is situated on the crest of a low ridge that drops down northwards between two shallow gullies draining the hillside at Catch-a-penny. Known only from cropmarks, the enclosure is probably D-shaped on plan, backing onto the escarpment on the W bank of the E gully and comprises an arc of two concentric ditches set about 5m apart. While the inner ditch is only 1.5m in breadth, however, the outer is over 4m, and despite their concentric arrangement, they almost certainly represent two separate periods of construction in which the more major outer perimeter has been a free-standing enclosure. It measures internally 85m from N to S along the chord formed by the escarpment on the E, by at least 45m transversely (0.32ha); allowing for the presence of an internal rampart, the interior encloses about 0.26ha. The inner enclosure measures 65m and 45m respectively and contains traces of a ring-ditch house on the SW. A circular macula, probably indicating the stance of another round-house, intersects the inner enclosure on the N and presumably relates to the occupation of the outer enclosure, though the sequence between them cannot be determined from the cropmarks. No entrances are visible in the arc revealed by the cropmarks, thus placing it either along the margin of the escarpment on the N or S, or directly across the burn from the E.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 20 October 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC4131
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site is visible as a cropmark.
Information from Scottish Borders Council