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Cockburn is a post-medieval settlement, farmstead and cultivation remains located 1050 metres north of the village in Berwickshire, Scotland. The site encompasses the structural and agricultural traces of a working rural community that developed during the post-medieval period, when such dispersed settlements formed the backbone of the Scottish Borders landscape. The underlying bedrock comprises an unnamed igneous intrusion of felsic composition, formed during the Early Devonian period, which would have influenced both the settlement's geology and the character of the surrounding land.
The remains visible today include the footprints of farm buildings and the ridge-and-furrow patterns of cultivation fields, evidence of the sustained agricultural effort required to work this upland terrain. Such settlements typically combined subsistence farming with pastoral activities suited to the rolling Borders landscape. The felsic bedrock, being harder and less easily weathered than surrounding sedimentary strata, may have shaped both the building materials available and the drainage characteristics of the site.
Cockburn is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM4609, recognising its importance as a material record of rural settlement and land management practices in the post-medieval Scottish Borders.
Cockburn,settlement,farmstead & cultivation remains 1050m N of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4609. View the official record →
Cockburn is a post-medieval settlement, farmstead and cultivation remains located 1050 metres north of the village in Berwickshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4609.
Cockburn,settlement,farmstead & cultivation remains 1050m N of dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a settlement,farmstead & cultivation remains. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cockburn,settlement,farmstead & cultivation remains 1050m N 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 SM4609.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston (2.6 km), Preston Church, church and burial ground (3.1 km), Preston Market Cross, 35m ESE of 1 Preston Cottages (3.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Cockburn,settlement,farmstead & cultivation remains 1050m N of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cockburn,settlement,farmstead & cultivation remains 1050m N of stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Late Silurian To Early Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is felsic-rock.