Craigbeck
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Craigbeck
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Cornal Burn; Cornal Tower
Canmore ID 89982
Site Number NT10SW 24
NGR NT 1129 0423
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/89982
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Moffat
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Field Visit (17 June 1991)
NT 1129 0423 NTlOSW24
Situated on a poorly-drained terrace to the S of the Cornal Burn and about 160m SE of Cornal tower-house (NT10SW 1), there are the remains of a scooped enclosure. Roughly oval on plan, it measures about 15.5m in diameter from NW to SE by 12.9m transversely within a grass-grown stony bank up to 3.2m thick and 0.3m high. The entrance is probably on the NE and the interior has been scooped into the slope (on the SW) to a depth of about 0.5m.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 17 June 1991.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
