Hayknowes
Linear Feature(S) (Period Unknown)
Site Name Hayknowes
Classification Linear Feature(S) (Period Unknown)
Canmore ID 66452
Site Number NY16NE 123
NGR NY 17420 65779
NGR Description From NY 17409 65615 to NY 17402 65954
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/66452
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Annan
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (20 February 1996)
NY 174 657 to 174 656 to 174 659 NY16NE 123
See also NY16NE 24, 120, 121 and 125.
Air photography (RCAHMSAP 1984, 1988 and 1989) has recorded the cropmarks of an extensive system of boundary ditches between the public road leading past Hayknowes steading (NY16NE 62) and the River Annan at Newbie. The overall pattern of the boundaries is uncertain, and may well represent several periods of construction, but the various angles in the ditches, and several junctions, indicate that the landscape E and N of Hayknowes has been divided into a series of large enclosures.
One of the most striking elements of the boundary system is a double-ditched droveway, which extends N from Hayknowes for a distance of at least 550m. One of the ditches intersects the perimeter of a rectangular enclosure (NY16NE 124) about 250m NE of Hayknowes; its points of approach midway along the W side, and departure from the NE corner, almost certainly indicate that the enclosure pre-dates the boundary. Another boundary (NY16NE 121) appears to respect the SW angle of the Roman temporary camp NY16NE 22.
Information from RCAHMS (SPH), 20 February 1996.
Listed as ditch-systems and droveway (with NY16NE 120, 121 and 125).
RCAHMS 1997.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (1 October 2012)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 1 October 2012.
