Greenlaw Moor

Aerial photography has recorded the remains of a number of structures on Greenlaw Moor, in an area of improved land to the north of Heriot's Dyke.

A large field, enclosed by walls, lies to the north of three enclosures and a building. The 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, published in the 1860s, shows that these structures, which probably formed a farmstead, were already in ruins by this time.

Ordnance Survey surveyors, working on this area prior to the publication of the 6-inch map, recorded that the ruins of a brickworks were also located around this part of Greenlaw Moor. Constructed by the 3rd Earl of Marchmont, the works produced bricks for the construction of Marchmont House, built between 1750-4.

Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project

NT74NW 35 7003 4857

The site previously recorded as NT74NW 36 is now included with this site.

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 September 2000

Visible on Ordnance Survey large scale vertical air photographs (OS 70/364/007-8).

Shawburn: "..the ruins of what was formerly a Brick Work which was erected by the late Earl of Marchmont for the purpose of manufacturing the Brick necessary for building the present Marchmont House. The greater part of the building has disappeared, the remaining walls nearly levelled to the ground."

Name Book 1862

A farmstead comprising one unroofed building and two enclosures, another enclosure annotated Snawburn (in ruins), and a field are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Berwickshire 1862, sheet xxi). The field is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 September 2000