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Cliftoncote Cultivation Terraces is a system of ancient agricultural earthworks located in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. The terraces represent a form of landscape modification undertaken to facilitate arable farming on sloping terrain, a practice employed across Britain during the medieval period and potentially extending into earlier phases of land use. The earthworks remain visible as linear banks and scarps that follow the natural contours of the hillside, indicative of systematic field management and soil conservation techniques. Such cultivation terraces are characteristic of intensified agriculture in upland and marginal areas, reflecting the pressures of population and subsistence during the medieval centuries.
Cliftoncote,cultivation terraces is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5009. View the official record →
Cliftoncote Cultivation Terraces is a system of ancient agricultural earthworks located in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5009.
Cliftoncote,cultivation terraces 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 SM5009.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Huntfold Hill, fort and field system (8.5 km), Pennymuir Bridge, barrow cemetery 700m NE of (8.9 km), Round cairn west of Windy Gyle, 680m WNW of Russell's Cairn (9 km).
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