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Lawhead Hill enclosure is a post-medieval enclosed site in East Lothian, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6066. The monument sits upon bedrock of unnamed extrusive rocks of Dinantian age, formed during the Mississippian period as mafic lava and tuff deposits. This geological foundation of ancient volcanic material lies beneath the more recent landscape modifications that created the enclosure.
Post-medieval enclosures in East Lothian typically date from the 16th century onwards, marking the period when agricultural practices and land management underwent significant change across lowland Scotland. These earthwork monuments represent the consolidation and reorganisation of farming practices, often associated with improving landowners seeking to define and control their holdings more effectively.
The enclosure at Lawhead Hill survives as an archaeological record of this period of agricultural change in East Lothian. Its protected status recognises the importance of such monuments in understanding how rural communities and landowners adapted and restructured their relationship with the landscape during the post-medieval centuries, contributing to the development of the agricultural systems that would characterise the region into the modern era.
Lawhead Hill,enclosure is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6066. View the official record →
Lawhead Hill enclosure is a post-medieval enclosed site in East Lothian, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6066.
Lawhead Hill,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.
Lawhead Hill,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 SM6066.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Park,fort 900m SSE of (7.5 km), Quarryford House,enclosures,souterrain and pit alignment SW of (8 km), Longyester,palisaded enclosures and pit alignments 600m SE of (8.3 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Lawhead Hill,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.
Lawhead Hill,enclosure stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.