Wolfcleughhead
Pen (Post Medieval)
Site Name Wolfcleughhead
Classification Pen (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Craik Forest; Muckle Knowe; Knowebog Hill
Canmore ID 53004
Site Number NT30NW 4
NGR NT 3245 0800
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53004
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Roberton
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Roxburgh
- Former County Roxburghshire
NT30NW 4 3245 0800
NT 3245 0800. There are the remains of a small turf-banked enclosure on the saddle between Muckle Knowe and Knowebog Hill. It measures c.10.5m NW-SE by c.6.0m transversely and is formed by a bank 3.5m wide by 0.6m high, with a possible entrance in its NW side. The angles of the enclosure are rounded and the bank forming the NE side continues to the NW for a distance of c.10.0m, where it runs into the NE side of a small mutilated mound.
Surveyed at 1/10560.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 July 1962.
Scheduled with NT30NW 1.
Information from Historic Scotland, 10 April 1997.
Field Visit (12 October 2021)
The pen is situated in a clearing in the Craik Forest to the south of the Wolfcleugh Burn. An elongated U-shape on plan it measures about 13m from NNW to SSE by 9m transversely over a spread bank some 3m across. There is an entrance on the NNW and a wing-wall extends for 15m to the NNW from the ENE side of the entrance. On the W side of the wing-wall there is a mound about 5m in diameter with a small central depression.
This form of pen is relatively common across the western Border Hills, including parts of the Upper Clyde (e.g. NS91NE 61) where it has been suggested they were used for milking ewes (Ward 1992, 48).
Visited by HES Designations (RMcD, AF) 12 October 2021
Sbc Note
Visibility: This is an upstanding earthwork or monument.
Information from Scottish Borders Council