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Broomhillbank Hill, 'dinwoodie Graveyard'

Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)

Site Name Broomhillbank Hill, 'dinwoodie Graveyard'

Classification Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Scooped Settlement (Iron Age)

Alternative Name(s) Dunwiddie; Dinwoodie, Burial-ground

Canmore ID 66972

Site Number NY19SW 8

NGR NY 13036 90619

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NY19SW 8 1303 9062

(NY 1303 9062) Dinwoodie Grave Yard (NR)

(Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1957)

Vestiges of an old churchyard defined by an earthen embankment. Dinwoodie was a chapelry and it is supposed that a place of worship stood at or near the site. (The name 'Kirkstile Knowe' at NY 127 905 may have significance)

Name Book 1857

Set slightly into the hillside is a simple, almost rectangular enclosure measuring 28.0m NW-SE by 30.0m transversely. It survives as a scarp c. 0.8m high and has a distinct entrance on the uphill side in the W corner. The interior is uneven with natural rock breaking through the surface. There is no ground or documentary evidence to suggest that this is a graveyard and no trace of a "place of worship" could be found in the area.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 19 January 1972

The chapel of Dunwiddie (Dinwoodie) (Dinwoodie extracts from historical records, lodged in Ewart library, Dumfries) is mentioned in 1578, 1581, 1605 and 1609. Visiting the site prior to 1970, the one remaining gravestone, of red sandstone similar to stones in Tinwald churchyard, was being used as a cover for the nearby well. No inscription was seen, but the stone could have been face down. The farmer had made an entrance through the wall, clearly showing its construction of a core of large boulders covered with turf. Dinwoodie parish was united with Applegarth in 1609.

Information from Mrs J Welsh, 1 Greenway Close, Weymouth, Dorset to OS, 13 November 1981.

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Field Visit (19 July 1990)

NY19SW 8 1303 9062

This scooped settlement, previously identified as the site of a church and graveyard, is situated on the SE flank of Broomhillbank Hill. Subsquare on plan, it measures about 29.5m across from NE to SW by 28.2m transversely within an earth-and-stone bank up to 5m in thickness and 0.5m in height. The entrance is in the W corner. The interior has been scooped into the slope on the NW and on the other three sides the banks have been formed with material from a shallow, internal quarry-ditch to 3.5m in breadth. A possible platform, set just below the rear scarp on the NW, may be the stance for a rectangular building.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, SMF), 19 July 1990.

Listed as (rectilinear) enclosure and (possible) burial-ground.

RCAHMS 1997.

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