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Bentpath, Auchendona Hill
Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Bentpath, Auchendona Hill
Classification Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Auchendon Hall
Canmore ID 67607
Site Number NY38NW 1
NGR NY 30473 89047
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67607
![Plan of fermtoun and cultivation remains at Boyken: publication drawing for Inventory of Eastern Dumfriesshire, generated from computer file. Unattributed, [1996].](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/l/DP00252257.jpg)
![Plan of fermtoun and cultivation remains at Boyken: publication drawing for Inventory of Eastern Dumfriesshire, generated from computer file. Unattributed, [1996].](http://i.rcahms.gov.uk/canmore/s/DP00252257.jpg)
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Westerkirk
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY38NW 1 3046 8903
(NY 3046 8903) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
This enclosure is situated at 700ft OD, in moorland, just over the watershed and overlooking the Boyken Burn to the S. It measures 124ft in diameter within an earth and stone bank 18ft broad at the base, with an external ditch. The E side has been almost completely removed. The entrance, in the W, does not open on the lowest part of the interior. When visited, any internal details were obscured by bracken.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; G Jobey 1971
This well-preserved settlement is as described. The bank averages 1.0m high and the ditch is 0.8m deep; there is a slight counterscarp on both the uphill and downhill sides. The fairly level interior was again covered by bracken but no obvious stances were identified.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (MJF) 19 September 1979.
Field Visit (January 1981)
Auchendona Hill, Bentpath NY 304 890 NY38NW 1
A roughly circular earthwork, probably a settlement, is situated in the saddle between Auchendona Hill and Boyken Hill; it measures about 34.5m in diameter within a bank (up to 4.4m thick and 0.8m high) with an external ditch and traces of a low counterscarp bank. The entrance is on the WSW.
RCAHMS 1981, visited January 1981
(RCAHMS 1920, p. 218, No. 646)
Note (1997)
NY 3046 8903 NY38NW 1
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
