This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 55.7915 / 55°47'29"N
Longitude: -2.5027 / 2°30'9"W
OS Eastings: 368577
OS Northings: 655473
OS Grid: NT685554
Mapcode National: GBR B1YG.ZQ
Mapcode Global: WH8WZ.JPGH
Entry Name: Dirrington,farmstead
Scheduled Date: 6 March 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4639
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Longformacus
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead situated on the E slope of Dirrington Hill. The farmstead, in its latest phase, is T-shaped and overall measures c.25m NE-SW by c.25m NW-SE. The angle of the 'T' on the SE side forms two sides of a yard which is completed by two walls to form a rectangle with an entrance to the SW. This leads to a roadway which runs SW along the flank of Dirrington Hill. There are traces of earlier buildings immediately upslope of this building and also traces of roadways. There is evidence of activity associated with the farmstead for c.40m
around the building and downslope there is a considerable area of well-preserved rig and furrow cultivation. The area to be proposed for scheduling includes the farmstead and yard, adjacent areas of activity and part of the rig and furrow. The area is bounded by the drystone used to the SW and measures 140m NE-SW by 100m transversely.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it is a well preserved example of a pre-improvement farmstead. Knowledge of rural settlement in these periods is slight and the site has the potential to greatly enhance the understanding of agricultural processes and economy over a period of several hundred years.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the site as NT65NE 21.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments