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Jennet's Knowe
Burnt Mound(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Jennet's Knowe
Classification Burnt Mound(S) (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Roundstonefoot House
Canmore ID 71935
Site Number NT10NW 22
NGR NT 1426 0903
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71935
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Moffat
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Field Visit (6 June 1991)
NT10NW 22.00 142 090
NT10NW 22.01 NT 1423 0905 Burnt Mound
NT10NW 22.02 NT 1423 0903 Burnt Mound
NT10NW 22.03 NT 1423 0904 Burnt Mound
This group of three burnt mounds (NT10NW 22.01, 22.02 and 22.03) is situated in poorly-drained ground to the E of the A708 public road some 550m NNE of Roundstonefoot steading (NT10NW 58). The nature of each mound was tested by the removal of turf, revealing in each case at a depth of about 0.1m, a dense concentration of bright red angular fragments of stone and small pieces of charcoal within a matrix of loose black soil. This composition was quite unlike that of the natural subsoil (a grey boulder clay) which was exposed in a nearby stream section.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 6 June 1991.
Listed as burnt mounds.
RCAHMS 1997.
Measured Survey (22 May 1991)
RCAHMS surveyed the burnt mounds at Jennet’s Knowe on 22 May 1991 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:125. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1997, Fig. 89).
Measured Survey (21 May 1991)
RCAHMS surveyed the scooped settlement and burnt mounds at Jennet’s Knowe (Roundstonefoot) on 21 May 1991 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade, producing a plan at a scale of 1:1250.
