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Boreland Mote

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Motte (Medieval)

Site Name Boreland Mote

Classification Motte (Medieval)

Canmore ID 64161

Site Number NX65SW 7

NGR NX 6460 5175

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the motte, taken from the SE.
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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Borgue
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Stewartry
  • Former County Kirkcudbrightshire

Archaeology Notes

NX65SW 7 6460 5175.

(NX 64605175) Boreland Mote (NR)

OS 6" map (1910)

The motte at Boreland may have been occupied about 1150.

E S Armitage 1912

The mote-hill of Boreland is an oval artificially-scarped rocky hillock 18 to 21 feet high, its summit measuring 118 feet north to south by 80 feet east to west. On the north edge there is a stony mound 10 feet in diameter and about 1 foot high. The whole is surrounded by a ditch about 38 feet wide and 12 feet deep, within a counterscarp up to 12 feet high and broken by gaps on NE and west.

RCAHMS 1914

As described by RCAHMS. Still known as "Boreland Mote".

Visited by OS (WDJ) 29 January 1965.

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