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Terrona
Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Terrona
Classification Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Tarrona
Canmore ID 67605
Site Number NY38NE 8
NGR NY 37314 87153
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67605
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Ewes
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY38NE 8 37314 87153
(NY 3730 8715) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
Enclosure, Tarrona: This elliptical enclosure, which is comparable with the ones at Parson's Rig (NY39SE 14) and Brieryshaw Hill (NY39SE 10), measures 230ft by 193ft within a stone wall originally some 6ft thick, with entrance on the W. The interior has been scarped on the upper side. The assumption in the Inventory (RCAHMS 1920) that the ground outside has been scarped for defensive purposes is erroneous, the scarp on the W and N sides being the result of ploughing round tha base of the wall. The site could hardly be in a less defensive position and is plainly visible from the floor of the valley. Former cultivation has destroyed any internal features. The true stature of the perimeter is in doubt and the use of the interior uncertain.
Though a medieval tripod vessel has come from the ditch (A E Truckell, Dumfries Museum), this need not have a bearing on the original context of this, or similar enclosures.
G Jobey 1971; RCAHMS Marginal Lands Survey TS., visited 1955
Generally as described above, this settlement lies in arable ground on a SW-facing slope. It abuts a natural gully in the SE. The stone wall is particularly evident in the N but in the W, traces of walling are scant and here the perimeter consists of what appears to be an enhanced natural slope. The enclosure has been breached in four places in the N and E. While three of these gaps are clearly mutilations, one, in the extreme N, is possibly a subsidiary entrance contemporary with the settlement. No outer ditch is visible.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (JB) 4 October 1979.
Scheduled as 'Terrona, scooped settlement 150m SE of...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 16 March 2010.
Field Visit (12 July 1955)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Marginal Land Survey (1950-1962), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, are available to view online - see the searchable PDF in 'Digital Items'. These vary from short notes, to lengthy and full descriptions. Contemporary plane-table surveys and inked drawings, where available, can be viewed online in most cases - see 'Digital Images'. The original typecripts, notebooks and drawings can also be viewed in the RCAHMS search room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 19 July 2013.
Field Visit (November 1980)
Terrona NY 373 871 NY38NE 8
Situated on a terrace 150m SE of Terrona farmhouse, there is an oval settlement measuring 70m by 54m within a stony bank up to 4.8m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The entrance is probably on the W.
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980
(RCAHMS 1920, pp. 80-1, No. 209; Jobey 1971, 98)
Note (1997)
NY 3730 8715 NY38NE 8
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
