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Fingland Burn
Mound (Post Medieval)
Site Name Fingland Burn
Classification Mound (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 49978
Site Number NT14NE 37
NGR NT 18533 46687
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49978
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Newlands
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Tweeddale
- Former County Peebles-shire
NT14NE 37 1852 4670.
On a fairly level shelf at the foot of the steep W slopes of Green Knowe, overlooking the Fingland Burn from a height of 920ft OD, there is a small barrow situated close to a pair of ring enclosures (NT14NE 21). Excavations revealed that the barrow was composed entirely of earth and measures 14ft in diameter and 9ins in greatest height. It was found to be covering a small pit measuring 2ft 6ins by 1ft which was dug into the natural gravel subsoil to a depth of about 8ins. From the filling of the pit, of heavily corroded iron was found resting on the natural surface at a point 5ft 6ins from the centre of the barrow.
RCAHMS 1967, visited August 1963.
No trace.
Visited by OS 9 January 1975.
Field Visit (5 March 2024)
A small mound measuring about 2.5m in diameter and no more than 0.3m in height is situated 17m to the SSW of a the westernmost of two turf ring-banks that are probably sheepfolds (Canmore ID: 49961). Stamping on the mound indicates that it is composed of soil and it is likely to be the remains of a pile of unused turf created when the sheepfolds were being constructed. There is no evidence to suggest that the mound may have been barrow, an earlier interpretation that was largely driven by its location adjacent the ring-bank, which was then believed to be of prehistoric date (RCAHMS 1967, 54).
Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (D. Cowley) and Designations (A. Fulton, A. Rutherford), 5 March 2024
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site has been excavated.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
