Dryhope
Burial Cairn(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Clearance Cairn(S) (Prehistoric), Enclosed Cremation Cemetery (Bronze Age)(Possible), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Dryhope
Classification Burial Cairn(S) (Prehistoric)(Possible), Clearance Cairn(S) (Prehistoric), Enclosed Cremation Cemetery (Bronze Age)(Possible), Hut Circle(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 51206
Site Number NT22SE 1
NGR NT 2621 2466
NGR Description Centred NT 2621 2466
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51206
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Yarrow
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Selkirkshire
NT22SE 1 centred 2621 2466.
To the NW and NE of the larger of the two hut circles, correctly described by the Commission, are the footings of two additional hut circles with diameters of 4.3m. and 4.7m. respectively, comprising low stone-and-turf banks 0.2m. high and 0.6m. maximum width.
The enclosure (as describd by RCAHMS) is in fact a larger hut circle and, about 120m. SE of this, there is the outline of another, 12.4m. in diameter, bounded on the N. side by a scarp 0.2m high: modern ditches surround this circle on the remaining three sides. The numerous heaps of stones within this area are for the most part grassed over and appear to be stone clearance heaps.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 June 1962.
Scheduled as 'Dryhope, hut circle, cairns and field system... comprises the remains of a hut circle, two burial cairns, a possible enclosed cremation cemetery, and a field system made up of clearance cairns.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 November 2000.
Field Visit (23 August 1950)
Hut-Circles, Dryhope (NT 262 247).
These hut-circles, two in number, are situated on level ground 30 yds. S. of the track from Dryhope to Dryhopehope, a quarter of a mile W. of Dryhope and at a height of 950ft. OD. One of the hut-circles is 14ft. in diameter, with a ruinous stone wall spread to a thickness of 4 ft. and an entrance on the E., and the other, 63ft. to the E. of the first, is 11ft. in diameter and has a similar wall but no apparent entrance. A circular enclosure lies 65 ft. E. of the smaller hut- circle; it is 35ft. in diameter, is formed by a low stony bank spread to a thickness of 6ft., and has its entrance on the E.
The hut-circles and enclosure lie in the SE. of an area of about 4 acres in which there are twenty-two heaps of stones, disposed at random, which vary in diameter from 5ft. to 18ft. While these heaps may well have been formed during the clearance of the ground for cultivation, they may also be compared with the "cairn-fields" known in certain parts of the country, for some of which a sepulchral origin seems to be at least possible.
RCAHMS 1957, visited 23 August 1950
OS 6" map (1900) unnoted
Measured Survey (23 August 1950)
RCAHMS surveyed the hut circles, enclosure and cairns at Dryhope on 23 August 1950. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale as RCAHMS 1957, fig. 124.
Field Visit (20 June 1962)
NT22SE 1 centred 2621 2466.
To the NW and NE of the larger of the two hut circles, correctly described by the Commission, are the footings of two additional hut circles with diameters of 4.3m and 4.7m respectively, comprising low stone-and-turf banks 0.2m high and 0.6m maximum width.
The enclosure (as described by RCAHMS) is in fact a larger hut circle and, about 120m SE of this [NT 2631 2456], there is the outline of another, 12.4m in diameter, bounded on the N. side by a scarp 0.2m high: modern ditches surround this circle on the remaining three sides. The numerous heaps of stones within this area are for the most part grassed over and appear to be stone clearance heaps.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 June 1962.
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
