More information : (NT 81541138) Double enclosure. (1) An earthwork situated upon a south facing moorland slope at approximately 1300 ft above sea level, with precipitous slopes to the west and south-west. A small knoll has been encircled by a slight earth and stone bank forming an enclosure. To the north-east, and adjacent, is another, irregularly shaped, enclosure bounded by an earth and stone bank and sub divided into two portions by a slight bank - of which, only traces exist. In the latter enclosure, the foundations of a small building measuring 5.0m x 5.0m are distinguishable. Within the foundations is a heap of loose stones apparently gathered from the area. The nearest water supply is a swiftly running burn 60.0m to the west. In construction the work appears to have been a small homestead of unknown period. (2) Enclosure (NR) (3) The enclosure is similar to others in the area, normally found in association with rectangular steadings at the higher levels, and generally though to represent a pattern of rural colonization continuous from medieval times onwards. Correctly published on 6" (4)
Two relatively modern enclosures and a building foundation as described in the previous information. On the gently sloping SE approach to these remains are several lynchets that may well be contemporary. (5) This is an upland farmstead of medieval or post-medieval period situated on a gentle S-facing ridge overlooking Buckham's Walls Burn, comprising the remains of a steading and two associated enclosures at the edge of former cultivation occupying the ridge summit. The steading measures 17.8m NE-SW by 3.5m transversely within a turf-covered wall in which some facing stones are visible, but generally it is reduced to a bank, 0.3m average internal height. It issubdivided by a cross wall; the smaller NE compartment contains the tumbled remains of a later stone-built structure. The only gap in the external wall is a wide gap in the SE of the SW compartment. A stone-built garth in similar state of preservation to the steading adjoins it to the NW. Continuous to it is a further enclosuredefined by turf-covered bank, 0.3m high, and internal ditch, which encircles the base of a dry, natural knoll. Cultivation in the form of contour lynchets with indistinct traces of ridge and furrow occurs to the N,S and E of the farmstead. (6)
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