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Cademuir Hill

Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Cademuir Hill

Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Whaum

Canmore ID 51312

Site Number NT23NW 40

NGR NT 2373 3803

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NT23NW 40 2373 3803.

NT 2373 3803. A settlement is situated on level ground 530 yds NW of the summit of Cademuir Hill. Heart-shaped on plan, it measures about 100' in either direction within a wall which now appears in part as a low stony bank, from which a few facing-stones protrude, and in part as a mere scarp. The wall turns in on either side of the entrance. Former cultivation has levelled a stretch of the wall on the W side and also the S part of the interior. The N part contains the platforms of two timber houses, measuring 25' across in each case, and also the foundations of a secondary stone-walled house, measuring 25' in diameter internally, which lies partly on the N arc of the settlement wall and partly on one of the earlier house-platforms. (Information from R W Feachem notebook 1961-2, 91)

RCAHMS 1967, visited 1962

As described by RCAHM.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (DWR) 17 June 1971

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Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.

Information from Scottish Borders Council

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