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Turf Knowe round houses (Ingram)

NU 005157. Settlement of unenclosed round houses at Turf Knowe. (1)

Single unenclosed ring-grooved house, c.10m diameter. 39m from robbed cairn NU 01 NW 41. Visible on aerial photographs. (2)

Situated on a very gentle west-facing slope just below a summit ridge at NU 0052 1565, is a hut circle of ring-ditch form measuring 7.5 m in diameter (between ditch centres), the ditch being about 0.8 m wide and up to 0.3 m deep. There is a vague entrance causeway breaking the ditch in the west arc. To the east and west are scatters of clearance cairns [NU 0015/55 and 62] and 35 m to the south-east, there is a well-preserved burial cairn [NU 0015/61].(3)(5a)

A prehistoric hut circle, centred at NU 0052 1565, is visible as an earthwork on air photographs. It has an internal diameter of a little over 6m and comprises a ditch approximately 1m wide. A portion of the ring ditch (to the south and south-west) is not visible on the air photographs available. It may be evidence of an entrance. (3)

Part of Scheduled Monument 32782: Ingram Farm prehistoric to post-medieval settlement, agricultural and funerary remains. (4)

NRHE has this site listed under two entries NRHE 5223 settlement and 1034462 hut circle (5)
N3112
Later Prehistoric (4000BC to 43AD)
Bronze Age (2600BC to 700BC)
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION, English Heritage: Till Tweed NMP 2003; English Heritage
MEASURED SURVEY, RCHME: SE Cheviots Project ; RCHME
HISTORIC AREA ASSESSMENT, Ingram Village Atlas (HISTORIC BERWICK VILLAGE ATLAS) ; The Archaeological Practice Ltd


Source of Reference
Local History of Ingram

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