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Latitude: 55.449 / 55°26'56"N
Longitude: -2.2247 / 2°13'28"W
OS Eastings: 385887
OS Northings: 617263
OS Grid: NT858172
Mapcode National: GBR D5XF.5H
Mapcode Global: WH9ZZ.S9TK
Entry Name: Elm Knowe,settlement
Scheduled Date: 22 August 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5222
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Morebattle
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Kelso and District
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
The monument is an enclosed settlement of the prehistoric period, measuring 65m NW-SE by 47m transversely, within a low bank 0.2m to 1m high. It is situated on the summit of Elm Knowe. There is an entrance on the E side. Within the enclosure are the remains of at least 3 circular houses, surviving as depressions. The area to be scheduled measures 100m in diameter, to include the settlement and an area around it in which traces of activity associated with its use may survive, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well preserved monument which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of prehistoric settlement. Taken with the other, varied, types of prehistoric settlement surviving in the area it has the potential to increase greatly our knowledge of the development and use of the farmed prehistoric landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NT 81 NE 22.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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