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Home Farm enclosure is a post-medieval enclosure located 300 metres east-north-east of Home Farm in Midlothian, Scotland. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6038. The enclosure represents the agricultural reorganisation of the Scottish Lowlands during the early modern period, when farming practices were intensified and land divisions formalised through the construction of new field systems.
The monument sits upon bedrock belonging to the Clackmannan Group, a Westphalian-age sedimentary formation characterised by alternating cycles of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone. This underlying geology would have influenced both the drainage patterns and soil characteristics of the enclosure, determining which agricultural activities were most viable on this particular parcel of land.
The enclosure exemplifies the landscape changes that followed the agricultural improvements of the 17th and 18th centuries, when Midlothian's farming communities restructured their holdings to increase productivity. Though modest in scale compared to contemporary estate policies, such enclosures were instrumental in reshaping the open-field systems of medieval and early modern agriculture into the recognisable field patterns that characterise the Midlothian countryside today.
Home Farm,enclosure 300m ENE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6038. View the official record →
Home Farm enclosure is a post-medieval enclosure located 300 metres east-north-east of Home Farm in Midlothian, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6038.
Home Farm,enclosure 300m ENE 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.
Home Farm,enclosure 300m ENE 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 SM6038.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Whitebog Farm, enclosure 450m SE of (7.2 km), Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings (7.5 km), Rosslyn Chapel, burial ground, buried remains of nave and remains of St Matthew's Church, Roslin (7.9 km).
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Home Farm,enclosure 300m ENE of stands on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.