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Jordan Sike
Boundary Bank(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Shooting Stand(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Stock Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Jordan Sike
Classification Boundary Bank(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Shooting Stand(S) (19th Century) - (20th Century), Stock Enclosure(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Steel Knowe
Canmore ID 74645
Site Number NT60NE 38.01
NGR NT 6535 0880
NGR Description Centred NT 6535 0880
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/74645
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Southdean
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
Field Visit (22 April 1992)
NT60NE 38.01 centred 6535 0880
Some 20 ha are enclosed by boundary banks on the E side of the Jordan Sike within which there are a number of stock enclosures, shooting butts and expanses of rig. The boundaries are defined by banks and external ditches and are inter-connected with those around the cultivated ground of Northbank Tower (NT60NE 9.02). One of the Jordan Sike boundaries (Phase 1) supercedes in plan the primary boundary of the Northbank Tower system (NT 6565 0916) and a second boundary (Phase 3) is abutted by the final boundary of the Northbank Tower system (NT 6569 0907) respectively. The boundaries have been separated into three separate phases as follows:
Phase 1 NT 6534 0899 to NT 6565 0915
Phase 2 NT 6522 0841 to NT 6541 0893
Phase 3 NT 6546 0918 to NT 6573 0911
The Phase 1 boundary represents an expansion of the cultivated ground, as does the Phase 2 boundary, but the Phase 3 boundary, which cuts across that of Phase 1 at NT 6553 0905, indicates a significant reduction of the cultivation area with a loss of some 16 ha. The Phase 2 boundary overlies an earlier boundary at NT 6525 0844 which is described elsewhere (NT60NE 41).
The rig which lies within the boundaries (c.16 ha) is sinuous and ranges in width from 3m to 8m and is up to 200m in length, but there are some truncated cultivation ridges at NT 6540 0866 on Steel Knowe on the outside of the Phase 2 boundary. An earthen bank, which overlies the Phase 3 boundary, defines a subrectangular field of about 4 ha to the S of Northbank Cottage (NT 6555 0920), within which there are the traces of straight rig 4m in width.
There is a group of small stock enclosures overlying the rig at NT 6540 0910, including a trapezoidal turf-walled enclosure which is depicted on the 1st edition 6-inch OS map (Roxburghshire 1863, Sheet 34) and forms the latest element in the group. A second group of enclosures at NT 6533 0875 also overlies the rig and all trace of rig has been levelled in a subsidiary enclosure of the group (NT 6530 0875). The banks of these enclosures are generally constructed of earth or turf and in places turf-stripping halos are visible alongside (e.g. NT 6540 0875). Finally there is a row of eight turf-walled shooting butts distributed in a line some 40m apart (NT 6539 0883 to NT 6550 0911).
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD), 22 April 1992.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding building.
Information from Scottish Borders Council.