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Clerk Hill
Farmstead (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Clerk Hill
Classification Farmstead (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Clerkhill; Clerk Hill 1
Canmore ID 67283
Site Number NY29NE 7
NGR NY 25352 98572
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67283
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Eskdalemuir
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY29NE 7 2535 9857.
(NY 2535 9856) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map (1965)
Jobey notes this feature as a settlement with secondary occupation of more recent date.
G Jobey 1971.
NY 2535 9857. Levelled into the hillside overlooking the White Esk to the W are the remains of an oval settlement. It measures 53.0m N-S by 46.0m within a mutilated earth-and-stone bank on all but the E side which is represented only by a back scarp. The bank measures up to 3.5m wide and 0.8m high. The mutilated entrance is in the N.
A disturbed scooped area in the SW may be the possible remains of a hut but without excavation this cannot be definitely determined. In the centre of the enclosure are the remains of a stone-built rectangular building of later date.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 27 August 1962 and (IA) 12 October 1973.
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (MJF) 1 September 1978.
This sub-circular enclosure is visible on Economic Forestry Group APs (71/162/011).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Field Visit (May 1980)
Clerk Hill 1 NY 253 985 NY29NE 7
An oval settlement overlain by a farmstead is situated on a gently sloping shelf on the W flank of Clerk Hill. It measures 50m by 45m within a stony bank up to 4.4m thick and 0.4m high; the interior is scooped into the slope on the E.
RCAHMS 1980, visited May 1980
(Jobey 1971, 100)
Field Visit (May 1980)
Clerk Hill 1 NY 253 985 NY29NE 7
Within the interior of the settlement NY29NE 7 there are the remains of two rectangular buildings. The larger, a platform-building (12m by 3.1 m internally), is joined on the N by a small yard. A third building lies 30m SE of the settlement.
RCAHMS 1980, visited May 1980
(Jobey 1971, 100, 102)
Measured Survey (28 August 1992)
RCAHMS surveyed the scooped settlement at Clerk Hill on 28 August 192 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:500. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:1000 (RCAHMS 1997, Fig. 75).
Field Visit (28 August 1992)
NY 2535 9857 NY29NE 7
The remains of this scooped settlement, which is partly overlain by the footings of a farmstead, are situated on a W-facing slope overlooking the River White Esk, immediately below the track which leads from Clerkhill to Raeburnfoot. Roughly oval on plan, the settlement measures about 49m from E to W by 41.5m transversely within a grass-grown bank up to 8.5m in thickness with an entrance on the N. Within the interior, which has been levelled into the natural slope on the E, there is evidence for several oval house-platforms and the footings of three subrectangular buildings and an enclosure. On a terrace immediately to the S of the settlement, there is a second enclosure and a fourth building, while about 6m to the W of the settlent there is a small platform of unknown purpose and date.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 28 August 1992.
Listed as settlement and (overlying) farmstead.
RCAHMS 1997.
