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Black Burn
Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Settlement (Later Prehistoric)
Site Name Black Burn
Classification Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Settlement (Later Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Blackburn
Canmore ID 67877
Site Number NY48NE 8
NGR NY 4756 8890
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67877
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Castleton
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NY48NE 8 4756 8890.
(NY 4756 8890) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
The remains of an oval enclosure, bounded by a grass-covered stony bank, lie on the E side of the Black Burn, between 400 ft and 500 ft OD. It measures 130 ft NW-SE by 100 ft transversely, and has been almost destroyed by flooding. There are no internal features, but a grassy foundation, 20 ft square, lies just SE of the enclosure.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1948
The mutilated remains of an enclosure are situated on low-lying ground beside the Black Burn. The turf-covered stony bank, best preserved on the N, is up to 1.0m high and 3.9m wide with slight traces of outer wall face on the NW side. Traces of another stony bank across the N of the enclosure appear to form a small, higher-level area. Gaps in the main bank in the S and E are probably mutilations; the original entrance is not apparent. Outside the enclosure on the E side are the turf-covered footings of a building, 8.0m by 5.5m. It is now too mutilated for positive classification.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (TRG) 2 July 1979
Field Visit (13 February 1996)
This settlement (LID96 105) is situated on the valley floor immediately to the N of the Black Burn. It is oval on plan, measuring 37m from NE to SW by 30.5m transversely within an extensively robbed stony bank spread to 4m in thickness and up to 1m in height. The interior has been disturbed by drains which have mutilated what may be an entrance on the SE. The fragmentary footings of what may be a rectangular building lie in the NNW quadrant of the interior, and there is a small clearance heap in the SE. Immediately outside the settlement to the NE there are the mutilated stony footings of what may be another building (LID96 106, NY 4759 8892) measuring 6.4m from ENE to WSW by 4.5m internally. A gap in the S side may be an entrance.
(LID96 105, 106)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 13 February 1996
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
