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Lawhouses enclosure is a post-medieval field monument located 400 metres south-east of Lawhouses in Fife, Scotland. Protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument, it represents the agricultural organisation and land management practices of early modern rural Scotland. The enclosure sits upon bedrock of the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a Pragian-age sandstone formation with subordinate bands of conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone that underlies much of the Fife landscape.
Post-medieval enclosures such as this reflect the gradual process of field rationalisation and livestock management that characterised the Scottish countryside from the sixteenth century onwards. Constructed from stone or turf banks, these enclosures typically served to define property boundaries, contain stock and regulate access to cultivated land and pasture. Their survival depends largely on local farming practices and land use patterns.
The monument's location on Pragian sandstone bedrock would have influenced its construction, as the local stone was readily available for wall-building. The scheduled monument status recognises its importance as evidence for the evolution of the Scottish rural landscape during a period of significant agricultural change and reorganisation.
Lawhouses, enclosure 400m SE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6791. View the official record →
Lawhouses enclosure is a post-medieval field monument located 400 metres south-east of Lawhouses in Fife, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM6791.
Lawhouses, enclosure 400m SE 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.
Lawhouses, enclosure 400m SE 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 SM6791.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Leuchars Castle, enclosures 700m N of (3.3 km), Leuchars Castle, unenclosed settlement 320m NNE of (3.8 km), Leuchars Castle, settlement 200m and 400m W of and 240m WNW of (4.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Lawhouses, enclosure 400m SE of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Lawhouses, enclosure 400m SE of stands on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.