Martinlee Sike

RCAHMS surveyed the eastern farmstead at Martinlee Sike (NT60NE 20.02) on 13 December 1991 at a scale of 1:250. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1994f, Fig.6)

RCAHMS surveyed the western farmstead at Martinlee Sike (NT60NE 20.01) in 1991 at a scale of 1:250. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:500 (RCAHMS 1994f, Fig.7).

NT60NE 20.02 6589 0755.

This farmstead comprises three buildings and an enclosure. The main building has been built on the edge of a terrace into the side of which a smaller building has been built and an enclosure is attached to the SW side of them both. The main building is divided into two unequal compartments by a low step towards the WNW end and there appear to have been two entrances, one in the ESE end and the other in the SSW side, leading to the enclosure. The building measures 11.1m from WNW to ESE by 4.6m transversely within stony banks spread to some 1.9m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The smaller building, whose W wall appears to run under the E end of the main building, has two unequal compartments and is set into the slope to a depth of 0.8m. It measures some 6.9m from WNW to ESE by 3.2m transversely within stony banks spread to about 3m in thickness on the outside of the terrace and has an entrance at the E end of the SSW side. To the NNE of the main building there is a small outbuilding which measures 5.4m from WNW to ESE by 3.2m transversely within stony banks spread to 1.2m in thickness and 0.6m in height with an entrance at the SE corner.

(ROX 22-24)

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 10 January 1992.

Visibility: Upstanding building, which may not be intact.

Information from Scottish Borders Council