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Latitude: 55.5447 / 55°32'40"N
Longitude: -3.3755 / 3°22'31"W
OS Eastings: 313303
OS Northings: 628747
OS Grid: NT133287
Mapcode National: GBR 44WB.06
Mapcode Global: WH6VG.3WWQ
Entry Name: Stanhope, unenclosed platform settlement SE of Meldonhope Burn
Scheduled Date: 2 November 1999
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM8158
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: platform settlement
Location: Drumelzier
County: Scottish Borders
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
The monument comprises an unenclosed platform settlement of later prehistoric date.
The monument lies in rough grassland at the W end of Eskenkneis, a narrow spur of Taberon Law, at around 280m OD. It consists of a pair of house platforms. The first is sub-circular, measuring about 10m across. It is dug into the slope to a depth of about 2.5m, and the scarp at the front of the platform is about 1.7m high.
Some 20m to the S is an elongated platform measuring about 12m long. Much of the rear of the platform is covered in scree, and the front scarp is about 1.5m high. Platforms of this type are level stances upon which timber roundhouses were built. They date to the Bronze Age and later prehistoric period.
The area to be scheduled is oval in shape, with maximum dimensions of 60m N-S by 35m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of Bronze Age settlement and economy. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NT 12 NW 51.
Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/68647/
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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