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Quarry Hill
Earthwork (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Quarry Hill
Classification Earthwork (Period Unassigned), Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 55780
Site Number NT53SW 7
NGR NT 541 337
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/55780
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Melrose
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Ettrick And Lauderdale
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT53SW 7 541 337.
(NT 54153372) Earthwork (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1967)
The crop-mark, visible on air photographs, of a curving ditch in a cultivated field on the summit of Quarry Hill. One end runs into the east corner of the quarry while the other dies out a few yards to the south of an uncultivated rocky knoll on the west side of the field. The size and nature of the work cannot be determined on the slight evidence available but the commanding situation is eminently suitable for a prehisoric settlement.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949
No trace of this earthwork was found.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 6 February 1961
Though air photographs showed only a stretch of ditch some 50m long, resistivity and magnetometer surveys at this site showed it to be the mark of the SE side of the inner of two ditches enclosing an area of about 100m by 75m. This site has been damaged by a modern quarry on the N, and by the quarrying of a rock outcrop on the SW. It should now be regarded as a settlement.
R Jones (et al) 1991.
Project (1991)
Though air photographs showed only a stretch of ditch some 50m long, resistivity and magnetometer surveys at this site showed it to be the mark of the SE side of the inner of two ditches enclosing an area of about 100m by 75m. This site has been damaged by a modern quarry on the N, and by the quarrying of a rock outcrop on the SW. It should now be regarded as a settlement.
R Jones (et al) 1991.
Note (24 August 2015 - 18 May 2016)
Cropmarks first revealed the site of what is either a fort or a fortified settlement on the NW shoulder of Quarry Hill, which takes its name from the deep quarry cut into its steep N flank. The cropmarks revealed no more than an arc of ditch at least 3m broad swinging round the E from the lip of the quarry, but more recent geophysical survey has shown that this is the inner of two ditches enclosing an oval area measuring about 100m from ENE to WSW by 75m transversely (Jones et al 1991); making some allowance for the presence of an internal rampart, the interior extends to about 0.45ha. No other details are published .
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3330
Sbc Note
Visibility: This site is visible as a cropmark.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
