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Northbank Tower
Boundary Bank(S) (Medieval), Pen (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Northbank Tower
Classification Boundary Bank(S) (Medieval), Pen (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 74611
Site Number NT60NE 9.02
NGR NT 6610 0930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/74611
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Southdean
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
Field Visit (25 February 1992)
NT60NE 9.02 6610 0930.
Disposed over the ground around the pele-house there are some 22 ha of rig, delimited by the Windy Cleuch to the E, a small tributary of the Jordan Sike to the W, the Shaw Burn to the N and by a succession of boundaries to the S. The rig ranges from 4m to 10m in width and up to 250m in length, displaying a reverse-S shape (visible on oblique aerial photograph by J Dent B 83699/po). The rig is enclosed on the SSW by a succession of boundaries, each of them comprising a bank with an external ditch. The primary one (Phase 1) is traceable over a distance of 250m from the top of a sike at NT 6563 0917 to NT 6592 0912. Three further phases of boundary (phases 2 to 4) may be traced. The Phase 2 boundary runs from NT 6586 0910 to a sheepfold at NT 6592 0903, from which the Phase 3 boundary leads via a dog-leg at NT 6588 0883 to its end at NT 6593 0884 at the top of a sike that drains into the Windy Cleuch. In the final phase (phase 4) a boundary runs from NT 6589 0900 to the WNW to abut one of the boundaries of the Jordan Sike sequence at NT 6569 0907 (see NT60NE 38.01, phase 3). No rig is visible within this final phase of expansion.
On the E-facing hillslope above the Windy Cleuch (NT 6630 0931) there is a subrectangular pen, which overlies the rig, measuring 6m by 5m within turf walls 1m in thickness and 0.4m in height (ROX92 75).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 25 February 1992.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
