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  SM4422_Legal Doc

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Summary

Description

The monument comprises three settlements, two of which lie together and cultivation remains of the type called 'cord-rig'. The two settlements which lie together are known as Kemp's Castle. The more substantial of the two (A) measures c. 49m (NNW-SSE) x c. 40m transversely. It is formed by an earthen bank, in which a few boulders appear and which is accompanied by an intermittent external quarry ditch. The entrance in on the E. It contains the remains of at least 5 roughly circular house stances, each defined by a single narrow trench. Immediately to the SE are the remains of at least 6 house stances (B). The much wasted enclosure around the houses measures c. 90m (NE-SW) x c. 73m transversely. The third settlement (C) lies 600m to the WSW, to the W of Borthwickshiels Horn. It measures 64m (NE-SW) by c. 50m transversely, defined by an earthen bank, of which the S part has been destroyed. There are traces of an external ditch on the NE and E, with a counterscarp bank c. 0.3m high. There are traces of house stances in the interior. There are 'cord rig' cultivation remains to the E.

Statement of National Importance

The monument is of national importance because of the well preserved house stances in settlement A and B. It is also of national importance because of the likely stratigraphic relationship between A and B, and because of the survival of part of a contemporary field system. Settlement C is of national importance because of its similarity to settlement A and the survival of contemporary cultivation remains; the relationship between the two will be of national importance to the theme of the development of the late Bronze Age/Iron Age landscape. The monument is of national importance to the themes of late Bronze Age/Iron Age settlement and economy.

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