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Howden enclosure is a post-medieval field monument located in East Lothian, Scotland. The site lies upon bedrock of the Strathclyde Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Visean period of the Carboniferous epoch. This ancient geological foundation has shaped the landscape through which later farming communities developed their agricultural systems.
The enclosure represents the type of land division characteristic of post-medieval agricultural practice in the Scottish Lowlands, when farmers formalised field boundaries and stock management through constructed enclosures. Such monuments reflect the intensification and reorganisation of rural land use following the medieval period, as farming became more defined and regulated.
The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM5752, recognising its significance to the heritage record of East Lothian. The enclosure survives as a physical record of how communities in this region organised and utilised their land during the post-medieval centuries, set within the distinctive geological context of the Strathclyde sedimentary formations that underlie much of southern Scotland.
Howden,enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5752. View the official record →
Howden enclosure is a post-medieval field monument located in East Lothian, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5752.
Howden,enclosure 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.
Howden,enclosure 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 SM5752.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Witches Knowe,fort (4.6 km), Knockhill Wood,enclosure 500m W of (6.6 km), Hare Law,fort,Yester (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Howden,enclosure'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.
Howden,enclosure stands on Strathclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, strathclyde group type.