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Mow Law
Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mow Law
Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Mowhaugh
Canmore ID 59383
Site Number NT82SW 36
NGR NT 81835 21004
NGR Description From NT 8174 2113 to NT 8214 2055
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Morebattle
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT82SW 36 from 8174 2113 to 8214 2055
See also NT82SW 13 and NT82SW 14.
(Centred NT 8169 2085) Cultivation Terraces (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962).
There are cultivation terraces on the W face of Mow Low, below the enclosure NT82SW 14.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1938.
Here there are numerous poorly defined terraces with scarps about 0.3m to 0.5m high and virtually no level working areas.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 August 1960 and (RD) 14 June 1968.
These cultivations terraces are as described by OS Field surveyor (RD) 14 June 1968.
Visited by OS (TRG) 12 August 1976.
Vertical aerial photography (RAF 106 G/Scot/UK/121 frame 3259: 20 June 1946) indicates that the cultivation terraces recorded on the W face of Mow Law by the RCAHMS (1956) cover a much more extensive area spreading over the whole of the N end of Mow Law. Those previously recorded cover the steep W-facing slope of the hill but continue N, round the Law, through to the NE, over moderate and moderately steep slopes. The upper limits of cultivation are undefined, fading out as the slope levels off below the settlement of Mow Law (NT82SW 14). On the E side of Mow Law, the lower limit of the cultivation is marked by the base of slope or, in the very SE corner, by Steer's Cleuch. A small area of cross-contour rig (NT82SW 269) overlies the contour cultivation on the S, adjacent to a short break in the latter. On the W the contour cultivation stops above a current field-boundary and beside the scooped settlement at Mowhaugh (NT82SW 13). An area of recent cross-contour ploughing intrudes upon the lowest part of the cultivation on the N.
The cultivation varies in condition over the hillside and is best observed from opposing slopes. Those on the steep W-facing slope are the clearest with obvious scarps standing up to 0.5m in height whilst on the E side the cultivation is generally barely discernible on the ground. Where observed, the terraces vary from 2m to 5m in width with scarps ranging from 0.3m and 0.5m in height.
Information from RJ Mercer (University of Edinburgh) 22 March 1987
RCAHMS MS 2598. No. 17/192
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council
