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Huntly Burn enclosure is a post-medieval earthwork located in Selkirkshire, in the Scottish Borders. The monument sits on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke laid down during the Wenlock period of the Silurian. This geology, typical of the region, produced the hard, fine-grained sedimentary stone that characterises the local landscape and would have influenced both the construction materials and drainage patterns of the enclosure.
The enclosure itself dates to the post-medieval period, a time when the Border region saw significant changes in land management and settlement patterns following the Union of the Crowns. Enclosures of this age often represent the reorganisation of agricultural land, marking shifts from open field systems towards more defined, bounded holdings that reflected evolving patterns of property and resource control.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2311, recognition of its importance to understanding the post-medieval development of the Borders landscape. The monument survives as an earthwork feature within the contemporary Selkirkshire terrain, contributing to the archaeological record of how communities adapted and reorganised their use of the land during this transformative period in Scottish history.
Huntly Burn,enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2311. View the official record →
Huntly Burn enclosure is a post-medieval earthwork located in Selkirkshire, in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2311.
Huntly Burn,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.
Huntly Burn,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 SM2311.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Huntly Burn,earthwork (0.2 km), Brockhill Burn,earthwork (1.3 km), Oakwood, Roman fort and camp SSE of (2.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Huntly Burn,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.
Huntly Burn,enclosure stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.