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Fosterlands is a post-medieval enclosure situated in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument lies on land underlain by wacke bedrock of the Gala Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Telychian period of the Silurian. This geology has shaped both the landscape and the building materials available to those who constructed and maintained the enclosure.
The enclosure represents the practical agriculture and land management of the post-medieval period in the Borders region. Constructed from locally available stone, it would have served to define and control grazing land or arable fields, marking boundaries essential to farming operations in this upland terrain. Such enclosures are characteristic of the period when systematic improvement and reorganisation of Scottish farmland became increasingly common.
The site is recorded in the Historic Environment Scotland national record and protected as a scheduled monument under reference SM5023. Its survival and preservation provide evidence of the vernacular rural practices and land use patterns that shaped the Berwickshire landscape in the centuries following the medieval period.
Fosterlands, enclosure 695m N of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5023. View the official record →
Fosterlands is a post-medieval enclosure situated in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5023.
Fosterlands, enclosure 695m N 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.
Fosterlands, enclosure 695m 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 SM5023.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bonkyl and Preston parish church, church 10m S of (2.5 km), Bunkle Castle (2.7 km), Preston Cleugh, fort 2000m N of Preston (3.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Fosterlands, enclosure 695m 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.
Fosterlands, enclosure 695m N of stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.