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Latitude: 55.4955 / 55°29'43"N
Longitude: -3.4616 / 3°27'41"W
OS Eastings: 307755
OS Northings: 623378
OS Grid: NT077233
Mapcode National: GBR 448W.CV
Mapcode Global: WH5TN.S4SF
Entry Name: Weird Law, platform settlement 550m S of summit
Scheduled Date: 13 December 1974
Last Amended: 28 February 2000
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3529
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: platform settlement
Location: Tweedsmuir
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
The monument comprises an unenclosed platform settlement dating from the later prehistoric period. The monument was originally scheduled in 1974, but the scheduling documents contained a mapping error. The current rescheduling proposal rectifies this.
The settlement lies at around 320m OD on a south-facing slope overlooking the valley of the River Tweed. It comprises at least three roughly circular house stances levelled into the hillside, which vary from 6.5-10m in diameter. These platforms would each have held a substantial timber roundhouse. The faint traces of at least two other possible platform sites can be seen in the vicinity, and a level area immediately to the S of the settlement may represent a zone of contemporary cultivation or stock management.
The area to be scheduled is rectilinear, measuring a maximum of 70m E-W by 50m N-S, as shown in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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