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Mill Burn
Cultivation Remains (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cultivation Terrace(S) (Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Mill Burn
Classification Cultivation Remains (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cultivation Terrace(S) (Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Mill Burn 1
Canmore ID 67369
Site Number NY29SE 7
NGR NY 2547 9065
NGR Description Centred NY 2547 9065
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67369
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Westerkirk
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY29SE 7 centred 2547 9065.
(Centred NY 2547 9065) Cultivation terraces are to be seen on RAF aerial photographs (CPE/Scot/UK 282 F20: 4092-3, flown 27 August 1947) which also show a rectangular feature.
Information from O G S Crawford, 17 March 1939.
On this hillside, there are about six cultivation terraces of varying lengths and several old field banks of minor archaeological interest.
Visited by OS (DWR) 9 October 1973
Field Visit (August 1980)
Mill Burn 1 NY 254 906 NY29SE 7
Rig cultivation on the NW flanks of Camp Hill, overlooking the Mill Burn, has created slight terracing which is partly overlain by fields of rig-and-furrow enclosed by turf banks; this later field-system is overlain by unenclosed rig-and-furrow.
RCAHMS 1980, visited August 1980
