Dinwoodie Mains
Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Dinwoodie Mains
Classification Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Dinwoodie; Dinwoodie Plantation
Canmore ID 85900
Site Number NY19SW 29
NGR NY 1085 9012
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/85900
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Applegarth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY19SW 29 1085 9012
Scheduled as 'Dinwoodie, settlement 425m E of... the remains of a... scooped settlement, surviving as a circular earthwork and associated buried deposits within unimproved pasture...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 March 2011.
Measured Survey (15 August 1990)
RCAHMS surveyed the settlement at Dinwoodie Mains on 15 August 1990 with plane-table and self-reducing alidade at a scale of 1:500. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:1000 (RCAHMS 1997, Fig. 147).
Field Visit (18 July 1990)
NY 1085 9012 NY19SW 29
The remains of this well-preserved settlement are situated at the foot an unimproved pasture field, about 510m SSE of Dinwoodie Mains farmhouse (NY19SW 48.00). It lies on the S bank of a stream and measures 33m from E to W by 24.6m transversely within a grass-grown stony bank up to 5.3m thick and 0.6m high. On the E the interior has been levelled into the slope to a depth of at least 1m, and there is a poorly-preserved entrance on the W.
Within the interior, which is roughly polygonal on plan, there are two house-platforms; the first, on the NE, measures about 8.5m in diameter, whilst the second, on the E, is about 8.7m in diameter. Adjacent to the first, there are the grass-grown remains of a building or pen which measures about 5.5m square overall. In the centre of the S side there is a raised area of a more amorphous shape, and it too may represent the stance of a building.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 18th July 1990.
Listed as settlement.
RCAHMS 1997.
