Stanhope Farm

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The farmyard of farmstead B, which is situated 60yds NE of A, is bounded on all sides, except along the crest of the scarp, by a wall 4ft thick, part of which has been destroyed by the road to the cottage. Attached to the wall on the NW side of the yard is a rectangular building measuring 30ft by 12ft within a wall about 3ft thick. The SW corner of the building and the adjacent stretch of the farmyard wall have disappeared. There is an entrance near the SE end of the NE wall of the building, and another in the centre of the SW wall. A second building, wedge-shaped on plan and measuring 40ft by a maximum of 16ft within a wall 3ft thick, lies immediately E of the first. The only other features in the farmyard are two open-ended foundations, one measuring 35ft by 10ft and defined by a narrow ruined wall, and the other measuring 50ft by 12ft within a low grassy bank.

The ruin of a building measuring 17ft by 10ft within a wall 3ft thick lies midway between the two farmsteads.

RCAHMS 1967, visited June 1956

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The lower of the two farmsteads (B) comprises at least four buildings, but what may be fragments of three others are also visible. One of the buildings is a remarkable structure with a scooped interior measuring about 16.5m in length by 4m in breadth; its SW end is rounded, its entrance is in the NE end and there are traces of a wall reduced to a low stony bank along the lip of the scoop. The building lying immediately to the W may be of similar type, although there is no clearly defined gap in the NE end, and the opposite end is not rounded; there is also a possible entrance on the NW. On the slope between the farmstead and the building of Wester Stanhope there are several enclosures.

Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 16 August 1989.

Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.

Information from Scottish Borders Council