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Southfield
Findspot (Period Unassigned), Armlet(S) (Period Unassigned), Gaming Piece (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Plough Pebble (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Site Name Southfield
Classification Findspot (Period Unassigned), Armlet(S) (Period Unassigned), Gaming Piece (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Plough Pebble (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Flint(S) (Flint)(Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 54031
Site Number NT40NE 30
NGR NT 473 089
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/54031
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Hawick
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT40NE 30 c473 089.
A collection of artifacts of flint and stone from the adjacent farms of Southfield (NT 473 089), Crumhaugh Hill (NT41SE 19: NT 488 130) and Whitchesters (NT41SE 11: NT 469 110) was donated to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS) in 1948-9 by Mrs I Turnbull, Haysike, Hawick. The collection includes three microliths, flakes and implements of quartz and chert, fragments of cannel-coal armlets, and a quartz pebble worn by use as an inset in a wooden plough.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1951
Southfield: listed by Mulholland.
H Mulholland 1970
No information about these finds was obtained at Southfield farm. Nothing has been found recently. A small number of flint and chert implements and flakes from Southfield and Whitchesters are held at Hawick Museum, but they are uncatalogued and without further provenance. Dr M Robson of Hawick Museum has no knowledge of Mrs I Turnbull and she could not be traced locally.
Visited by OS (JRL) 17 November 1979
A barbed and tanged flint arrowhead from Southfield was in the NMAS in 1894. It was on loan from T Scott ARSA, Bowden, in whose collection it is recorded in 1895.
G F Black 1894; T Scott 1897
Artefacts from Southfield now in Wilton Lodge Museum, Hawick, comprise: an oval shaped polished flat stone, possibly a gaming counter (HAKMG 4077); 'eight flints, two non flint, seven retouched' (listed among chipped stone artefacts) (HAKMG 3748-3757); and '26 artefacts of flint and other forms of chalcedony possibly found near the Giant's Grave on Southfield farm' (NT40NE 4, at NT 479 090) (HAKMG 3975 A-Z).
Museum Catalogue 1981
