Clerk Hill

Ring Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Clerk Hill

Classification Ring Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 67260

Site Number NY29NE 37

NGR NY 2591 9955

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67260

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Clerk Hill, NY29NE 37, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Upper Eskdale landscape case-study area: map showing the medieval and later monuments and the locations of the farms known to have existed in the 18th century (with windows for maps of Bailiehill and Raeburnfoot).Published in Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape.

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Council Dumfries And Galloway
Parish Eskdalemuir
Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
Former District Annandale And Eskdale
Former County Dumfries-shire

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Field Visit (June 1992)

NY29NE 37 2592 9956

On the lower NNW flank of Clerk Hill, there is a cluster of at least eight ring-enclosures. They range in size between 3.9m and 6.8m in diameter within banks measuring between 1.3m and 2.1m in thickness and up to 0.3m in height, and have external ditches between 1.3m and 1.8m broad.

Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, PC), June 1992.

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