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Harelaw Hill

Enclosure (Prehistoric)

Site Name Harelaw Hill

Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Harelawhill

Canmore ID 67835

Site Number NY47NW 11

NGR NY 42428 78679

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Canonbie
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

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Field Visit (November 1980)

Harelawhill NY 424 786 NY47NW

Cropmarks reveal the ditches of an enclosure, measuring about 50m by 50m, 370m WSW of Harelawhill farmhouse. The NNE, WNW and SSW sides are straight, but the ESE side bows outwards.

RCAHMS 1981, visited November 1980

(CUCAP 1973)

Note (20 February 1996)

NY 4242 7868 NY47NW 11

This enclosure is roughly square, with rounded angles. It measures about 50m across within a ditch up to 2m in breadth. The entrance is probably on the E, but the whole of this side is obscured by an old stream gully.

Information from RCAHMS (SPH), 20 February 1996.

Listed as (rectilinear) enclosure.

RCAHMS 1997.

Aerial Photographic Transcription (7 November 2012)

An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 7 November 2012.

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