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Latitude: 55.1272 / 55°7'38"N
Longitude: -3.0539 / 3°3'14"W
OS Eastings: 332891
OS Northings: 581935
OS Grid: NY328819
Mapcode National: GBR 7934.MV
Mapcode Global: WH7YW.2D07
Entry Name: Bloch Farm,enclosure 600 m N of
Scheduled Date: 31 May 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4690
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Langholm
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument is a D-shaped enclosure of the Iron Age, incorporating a steep natural slope to the SW as part of its defences. The enclosure comprises an inner bank 0.5m high internally and 1m high externally with, in the N and W, a 1m deep medial ditch and corresponding outer banks; and in the E and S simply a 0.6m deep ditch. The entrance, in the NW, is a 3m wide gap between the end of the banks and the steep river cut slope.
The interior of the enclosure measures up to 47m by 34m. it resembles enclosures in the Upper Esk Valley. An area measuring a maximum of 100m (NW-SE) by 80m to include the enclosure and an area around it in which the remains of ancillary activities will survive is proposed for scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance to the theme of Iron Age settlement. It is of national importance, taken with the other sites in the Esk Valley, to the theme of the organisation and development of the Iron Age landscape; the area of Eskdale and Ewesdale is rare in allowing the possibility of the study of such a landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NY 38 SW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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