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Greendykes enclosure, located 200 metres west of Greendykes in East Lothian, is a post-medieval earthwork monument. The site consists of an enclosure, a field boundary system characteristic of its period, constructed across bedrock belonging to the Clackmannan Group. This sedimentary formation dates to the Westphalian phase and consists of cyclical deposits typical of coal-measure geology.
The monument lies within landscape geology shaped by millennia of human use. The Clackmannan Group bedrock underlying the site would have presented particular conditions for settlement and land management during the post-medieval period, when this enclosure was established. The earthwork represents small-scale agricultural organisation during a period of intensifying land division and property definition.
The site is afforded statutory protection as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5674, recognising its significance as evidence of post-medieval land use and settlement patterns in East Lothian. Such enclosures, often modest in extent, constitute an important archaeological record of how rural communities organised and bounded their productive landscape during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
Greendykes,enclosure 200m W of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5674. View the official record →
Greendykes enclosure, located 200 metres west of Greendykes in East Lothian, is a post-medieval earthwork monument. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5674.
Greendykes,enclosure 200m W 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.
Greendykes,enclosure 200m W 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 SM5674.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Settlement, Big Wood, 400m NW of Penkaet Rigg (5.9 km), Back Braes,enclosure (6 km), Ormiston Hall,St Giles Kirk (6.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Greendykes,enclosure 200m W 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.
Greendykes,enclosure 200m W of stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.