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Latitude: 55.147 / 55°8'49"N
Longitude: -3.086 / 3°5'9"W
OS Eastings: 330878
OS Northings: 584168
OS Grid: NY308841
Mapcode National: GBR 68WX.PR
Mapcode Global: WH6XJ.KWNL
Entry Name: Gibb's Hill, unenclosed settlement,palisaded settlements & houses
Scheduled Date: 31 March 1988
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4518
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded settlement; Secular: house
Location: Langholm
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Annandale East and Eskdale
Traditional County: Dumfriesshire
The monument is a settlement with four phases of development, of the late Bronze Age and Iron Age situated on the summit of Gibb?s Hill, and two groups of buildings of the pre-clearance period situated on the east flank of the hill. The monument includes three palisaded enclosures and at least 7 timber house-sites, 3 of which probably belong to the final phase of occupation.
Also in the area to be scheduled and immediately to the SSW there are traces of ?cord-rig? cultivation remains, over an area of 0.5 ha. An area 200m square centred on the summit of Gibb?s Hill is proposed for scheduling to cover these monuments. One group of pre-clearance buildings lies 320m ENE of the summit of Gibb?s Hill, immediately to the south of Rain Sike, and comprises 2 rectangular buildings constructed on platforms dug into the hillside.
The other group of buildings lies 240m SW of the summit of Gibb?s Hill; there are the remains of 2 buildings erected on platforms dug into the hillside. An area measuring 30m square is proposed for scheduling around each group. The prehistoric settlement is extremely well preserved and has a clearly defined complex history.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance to the theme of the development of settlement and defence in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. The adjacent and probably associated cultivation remains are of national importance to the understanding of the agricultural economics of this part of prehistory.
Palisaded enclosures, especially of this stratigraphic complexity are rare in the area; this monument is therefore of particular importance. The two groups of pre-clearance buildings are unusual in that they are isolated from obvious traces of contemporary cultivation and appear not to be farmsteads of the type noted elsewhere in the area.
They may represent an element of the economic system infrequently preserved. The study of the two groups and their association with the more typical farmsteads will be of national importance to the theme of pre-improvement settlement and agriculture.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the site as NY38SW 13.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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