Naze Hill, Becks
Farmstead (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Naze Hill, Becks
Classification Farmstead (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Nise Hill; Calfield
Canmore ID 67718
Site Number NY38SW 15
NGR NY 33888 84421
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67718
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Langholm
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Remains of prehistoric enclosure overlain by a later medieval or later farmstead located on south facing slope above Naze Hill within rough pasture and the Wauchope Water valley. Main views in southern arc, restricted in other directions due to local topography.
information from Héléna Gray, (CFA Archaeology Ltd), August 2015
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-278420
Scheduled as 'Calfield, scooped settlement and enclosure 440m N of... on the S-facing slope of Naze Hill...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 March 2010.
Field Visit (February 1981)
(No. 55) Naze Hill, Becks NY 339 844 NY38SW 15
What may be a homestead overlain by a later farmstead is situated on Naze Hill about 500m NW of Becks farmhouse. The interior of the homestead, which measures 25m by 15m, is slightly scooped into the slope on the NNW, elsewhere it is enclosed by a stony bank 3.1m thick and 0.5m high.
RCAHMS 1981, visited February 1981
Field Visit (February 1981)
(No. 191) Naze Hill, Becks NY 339 844 NY38SW
On Naze Hill, within the interior of the possible homestead no. 55, there is a platform building measuring 14.8m by 4m internally. The building is constructed on two levels its lower portion measuring 12.3m in length. The settlement of 'Nise' is noted in Blaeu's Atlas in 1654, but in 1718 it was recorded that 'here is no house not now at Nise Hill'.
RCAHMS 1981, visited February 1981
(Blaeu 1654b; SRO, RHP 9629)
Measured Survey (29 April 1992)
RCAHMS surveyed the farmstead at Naze Hill on 29 April 1992 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:500. This plan was redrawn in ink for publication at a scale of 1:1000 (RCAHMS 1997, Fig. 257).
Note (1997)
NY 3390 8442 NY38SW 15
Listed as settlement and (overlying) farmstead.
RCAHMS 1997.
Project (29 May 2014)
An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by CFA Archaeology Ltd, a desk based assessment and walk over survey (May 29th 2014) was conducted
The historic environment record within the Site Boundary is relatively limited, although there is some potential for the proposed development site to contain previously unknown heritage assets from at least the later prehistoric period onwards, given the historic landscape character of the wider area. Taking this into account, the archaeological potential of the proposed development site is considered to be low.
A summary assessment, on a site by site basis, of the predicted effects on the settings of assets within a 10km radius where the blade tip ZTV indicates that there would be theoretical views of one or more turbines
information from Héléna Gray, (CFA Archaeology Ltd), August 2015
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-278420
