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Knock Sike, Mid Knock
Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Knock Sike, Mid Knock
Classification Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Castle O'er Forest, Folds Plantation; Lower Rig; Black Esk Bridge
Canmore ID 67358
Site Number NY29SE 6
NGR NY 25017 91454
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67358
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Eskdalemuir
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY29SE 6 2500 9146.
(NY 2500 9146) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A fragmentary work published as 'Stone Ring' on County 6" of 1898/1947, but not published on 25" of 1858, nor, apparently listed in ONB of 1857/1898. It is described by OS Small Scales Reviser as in poor condition. Slight traces of the circular bank remain along the roadside, but there are no remains within the wooded area.
Visited by OS Reviser (DAD) 11 June 1952
Information from OS Recorder (DA) 21 February 1967
This earthwork has been destroyed by road construction and afforestation. The enclosure published on the OS 25" measures about 32m in diameter within a bank about 7m wide, and only two small unsurveyable lengths of this bank remain. The situation, adjacent to a river cliff, is typical of settlements in the area.
Visited by OS (DWR) 9 October 1973
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (BS) 17 October 1978.
NY 2500 9159. Earthwork: ploughed and planted.
A M Jackson 1978.
Field Visit (August 1980)
Lower Rig NY 250 914 NY29SE 6
An oval hollow bisected by the public road about 750m NNW of Black Esk Bridge is possibly the remains of a settlement; it measures about 30m by 25m internally and there are traces of a bank on the NW.
RCAHMS 1980, visited August 1980
Note (1997)
NY 2500 9146 NY29SE 6
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
