Toft Knowes | Canmore

Pit (Post Medieval), Settlement (Later Prehistoric)

Site Name Toft Knowes

Classification Pit (Post Medieval), Settlement (Later Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 161995

Site Number NY49NE 22.01

NGR NY 4981 9553

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with the remains of a farmstead, quarries and settlement adjacent and Hermitage Castle in the background, taken from the S.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a farmstead and quarries and a settlement adjacent, taken from the WNW.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a settlement with the remains of a field-system, rig and pens adjacent, taken from the SSE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a settlement surrounded by a field-system, rig and pens, taken from the NE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a settlement adjacent, taken from the NNW.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with the remains of a settlement adjacent, taken from the NE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with the remains of a farmstead, quarries and settlement adjacent, taken from the NW.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a settlement with the remains of a field-system, rig and pens adjacent, taken from the SE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a farmstead and quarries surrounded by a field-system, rig and pens with a settlement in the upper right corner of the photograph, taken from the W.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a settlement adjacent, taken from the SW.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a farmstead and quarries and a settlement adjacent and a castle in the background, taken from the S.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a farmstead and quarries and a settlement adjacent and a castle in the background, taken from the SE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with the remains of a farmstead, quarries and settlement adjacent, taken from the W.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a settlement with the remains of a field-system, rig and pens adjacent, taken from the SSE. Digital image of D/24574/CN.

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Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of the settlement, rig and field banks, taken from the NE.

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2/3/2007

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a settlement adjacent, taken from the SSW.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a settlement with the remains of a field-system, rig and pens adjacent, taken from the ESE. Digital image of D/24582/CN.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a farmstead and quarries and a settlement adjacent, taken from the NNW.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a farmstead and quarries and a settlement adjacent and a castle in the background, taken from the SSE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a settlement with the remains of a field-system, rig and pens adjacent, taken from the ESE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a settlement adjacent, taken from the SSE.

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Oblique aerial view of Toft Knowes centred on the remains of a field-system, rig and pens with a settlement adjacent, taken from the SE.

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Administrative Areas

Council Scottish Borders, The
Parish Castleton
Former Region Borders
Former District Roxburgh
Former County Roxburghshire

Activities

Field Visit (17 April 1996)

RCAHMS Afforestable Land Survey, Liddesdale

NY49NE 22.01 4981 9553

This settlement is situated on the gently sloping E flank of Toft Knowes, it measures 58m from NNE to SSW by 46m within a stony bank spread to 3.5m in thickness and 0.6m in height. The entrance is on the NE. A stony ban extends across the interior from E to W, dividing it intotwo unequal portions, and a gap midway along its course was presumably to allow access from one side to the other. Two stones are set upright about 1.2m apart on an axis from N to S in the NE corner of the S portion of the interior (NY 4983 9553); each is about 0.35m square in section and 0.5m in height. The W side of the settlement is overlain by one of the banks of the field-system (NY49NE 22.03).

Immediately S of the settlement there is a long narrow pit, with a dog-leg to the N towards the ENE end. It is flanked with upcast on either side and its floor, which is accessible from the WSW, is graded into the ground towards the ENE. It cuts through the bank of one of the fields of the surrounding field-system.

(LID96 237).

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 17 April 1996

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