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Ewingston enclosure is a post-medieval enclosure located 200 metres west-north-west of Ewingston in East Lothian, Scotland. The site lies upon bedrock of the Stratheden Group, sandstones and conglomerates formed during the Late Devonian period, which would have provided reasonably firm ground for construction and use. The enclosure represents a form of land organisation typical of early modern farming in the Scottish Lowlands, when linear boundaries and defined fields became increasingly common across the rural landscape.
Post-medieval enclosures of this type served practical agricultural purposes, allowing stock control and crop management within defined areas. Their construction often involved simple earthen banks or stone walls, traces of which may survive as surface features or soil marks. The Ewingston example sits within a landscape shaped by centuries of gradual improvement and reorganisation of land use.
The enclosure is protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM5751, reflecting its significance as evidence of early modern land use and settlement patterns. Such monuments contribute to understanding how rural East Lothian was organised and exploited from the sixteenth century onwards, before the dramatic changes brought by agricultural improvement schemes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Ewingston,enclosure 200m WNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5751. View the official record →
Ewingston enclosure is a post-medieval enclosure located 200 metres west-north-west of Ewingston in East Lothian, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5751.
Ewingston,enclosure 200m WNW of dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosure. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Ewingston,enclosure 200m WNW 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 SM5751.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Tollis Hill,fort (7.6 km), Prehistoric settlement, 470m NE of Andrew's Wood (7.6 km), Soutra Aisle, burial aisle and part of site of medieval hospital (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Ewingston,enclosure 200m WNW 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.
Ewingston,enclosure 200m WNW of stands on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.