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Mote Knowe
Enclosure (Prehistoric)
Site Name Mote Knowe
Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Newfarm
Canmore ID 66345
Site Number NY09NE 10
NGR NY 09383 98952
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66345
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkpatrick-juxta
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY09NE 10 0938 9896.
(NY 0938 9896) Mote (NR).
OS 6" map, (1957)
An irregularly circular hillock some 400 yards N by W of Newfarm is said to have borne the name 'Mote Knowe' for generations, but there is no evidence of artificial shaping or construction. There is an irregular trench-like hollow on the W side, but it is not believed to be the remains of a defensive work.
RCAHMS 1920; D Christison 1891
The slight remains of an enclosure visible as a slight scarp on the N and E and a grass-covered core on the S and W. Measuring c.45.0m in diameter, the enclosure wall is drawn around the top of the slope on the E and round the foot of the hillock on the S to rise again slightly, to the west of a natural ditch-like hollow. The date and purpose of this enclosure cannot be ascertained.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 25 March 1972.
Field Visit (26 September 1991)
NY 0938 9896 NY09NE 10
This enclosure is situated on a knoll 220m N of Newfarm steading (NY09NE 64). Roughly circular on plan, it measures about 35m in diameter within a ploughed-down bank which, on the N, E and S, has been reduced to no more than a scarp. On the W, where the approach is easiest, the bank is accompanied by an external ditch which measures up to 9.5m in breadth and 0.6m in depth. The entrance may have lain on the NW.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 September 1991.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (25 July 2012)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 25 July 2012.
