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Fiddleton
Platform Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Fiddleton
Classification Platform Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Eweslees; Fiddleton 1; Glenvarren Sike
Canmore ID 67750
Site Number NY39NE 12
NGR NY 38584 96638
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67750
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Ewes
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY39NE 12 3862 9664.
(NY 3862 9664) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map (1964)
Scooped enclosure, Fiddleton.
RCAHMS 1920
This sub-oval structure is situated on an E-facing slope at 610 ft OD, beside Glenvarren Sike and set slightly into the slope. It has been considerably reduced by cultivation and now consists of a low, turf-covered rubble bank best preserved on the NW where it measures some 4.0m wide and 0.5m high. The almost level, featureless interior measures about 63.0m E-W by 60.0m transversely. Due to the absence of any definite huts, this structure can only be classified as an enclosure.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (RDL) 31 July 1962 and (RD) 16 December 1971
Field Visit (November 1980)
(No. 182) Fiddleton NY 385 966 NY39NE
A platform-building (about 17m by 3.2m internally) is situated on the S side of Glenvarren Sike 180m NW of Fiddleton Bankend.
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980
Field Visit (November 1980)
(No.42) Fiddleton 1 NY 386 966 NY39NE 1
This settlement is situated about 100m NW of Fiddleton Bankend cottage. The pear shaped interior, which measures 63m from ENE to WSW by up to 63m transversely, is dug up to 1.8m into the slope on the WSW, and around the NE and SE, there is a bank 5.2m thick and 0.3m high. The entrance is on the SE.
RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980
(RCAHMS 1920, pp. 81-2, No 212)
Field Visit (August 1991)
NY39NE 12 3862 9664.
There is no change to the existing description.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, SMF), August 1991.
Listed as settlement (No. 960) and (overlying) building (No. 1693).
RCAHMS 1997.
