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Blacketlees Cottages enclosure is a post-medieval field boundary system located approximately 75 metres south-southwest of Blacketlees Cottages in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The enclosure dates from the post-medieval period and represents the agricultural land organisation typical of early modern farming practice in the Scottish Borders region. The site survives as a defined earthwork boundary, evidencing the division and management of agricultural land during this era of settlement and cultivation. This monument is recorded within the Historic Environment Scotland INSPIRE database under reference SM12027 and forms part of the broader archaeological record documenting rural settlement patterns in Dumfriesshire.
Blacketlees Cottages, enclosure 75m SSW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12027. View the official record →
Blacketlees Cottages enclosure is a post-medieval field boundary system located approximately 75 metres south-southwest of Blacketlees Cottages in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12027.
Blacketlees Cottages, enclosure 75m SSW of dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosure. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Blacketlees Cottages, enclosure 75m SSW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM12027.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The Roman fort and associated civil settlement and a medieval tower house at Bowness on Solway at the west end of Hadrian's Wall in wall mile 80 (7 km), Biglands House (milefortlet 1) and associated parallel ditches, part of the Roman frontier defences along the Cumbrian coast (7.2 km), Hadrian's Wall between Port Carlisle and Bowness-on-Solway in wall miles 78 and 79 (7.7 km).
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