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Dreva Hill, West

Settlement (Prehistoric)

Site Name Dreva Hill, West

Classification Settlement (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 49869

Site Number NT13NW 23

NGR NT 1292 3553

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Stobo
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Tweeddale
  • Former County Peebles-shire

Archaeology Notes

NT13NW 23 1292 3553.

(NT 1292 3553) Settlement (NR)

OS 6" map, (1968).

This settlement is oval on plan and measures 135' x 85' within a wall which now appears for the most part as a low bank from which numerous boulders protrude. The rectilinear foundations of buildings belonging to a secondary occupation of the site have destroyed part of the S sector of the settlement wall, in which the entrance was probably placed, and have almost obliterated the surface traces of a circular timber house (1 on RCAHMS 1967 plan, fig.37) located outside the wall. A second house, of ring-ditch type (2) measuring 30' in diameter over the ditch, lies immediately S of house 1. The absence of surface indications of timber houses in the interior of the settlement may have resulted from the secondary occupation, the date of which is not known. The field boundary bank (D) which impinges on the E and W sides of the settlement is described on NT13NW 8.00.

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1958.

This settlement is as described.

Visited by OS(EGC) 19 June 1964 and (BS) 18 November 1974.

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Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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