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Jeffries Corse is a cairn located in Peeblesshire, Scotland, constructed upon bedrock of the Portpatrick and Glenwhargen Formations, sedimentary wackes laid down during the Caradocian period of the Ordovician. The monument sits within a landscape of ancient metamorphic geology that has shaped human settlement patterns in the Scottish Borders for millennia. As a scheduled monument under the protection of Historic Environment Scotland, it is registered under reference SM3527.
Cairns of this type typically date to the Neolithic or Bronze Age periods and served as burial monuments or territorial markers. Their construction required substantial communal effort, with stone gathered from the surrounding landscape and carefully stacked to form substantial mounds. The underlying wacke geology of Peeblesshire would have provided accessible stone sources for the builders, though the specific date and function of Jeffries Corse remain to be confirmed by archaeological investigation.
The monument survives as a testament to prehistoric settlement and spiritual practice in the Borders region. Its protected status reflects its archaeological significance and its value as a physical record of early communities in Peeblesshire. The cairn forms part of a wider landscape of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments distributed across southern Scotland.
Jeffries Corse,cairn is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3527. View the official record →
Jeffries Corse is a cairn located in Peeblesshire, Scotland, constructed upon bedrock of the Portpatrick and Glenwhargen Formations, sedimentary wackes laid down during the Caradocian period of the Ordovician. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM3527.
Jeffries Corse,cairn 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 SM3527.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Glenbield, fort 800m ENE of (7.5 km), Green Hill, settlement (7.9 km), Venlaw Castle Hotel,settlement 780m NE of (8.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Jeffries Corse,cairn'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.
Jeffries Corse,cairn stands on Portpatrick Formation And Glenwhargen Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is wacke.