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Little Pinkerton is a post-medieval enclosure situated approximately 100 metres south-west of the settlement of Little Pinkerton in East Lothian, Scotland. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5839.
The enclosure sits upon bedrock of the Reston Group, a geological formation of Early Devonian age comprising interbedded conglomerate and sandstone. This underlying geology shaped both the landscape and the building materials available to the inhabitants who constructed and maintained the enclosure during the post-medieval period.
As a post-medieval field or stock enclosure, the site represents the farming practices and land management systems of early modern rural Scotland. Such enclosures typically defined pasture boundaries, facilitated animal husbandry, or marked agricultural divisions on the working landscape. The monument preserves evidence of the settlement pattern and agricultural economy of this corner of East Lothian during the centuries following the medieval period.
Little Pinkerton,enclosure 100m SW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5839. View the official record →
Little Pinkerton is a post-medieval enclosure situated approximately 100 metres south-west of the settlement of Little Pinkerton in East Lothian, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5839.
Little Pinkerton,enclosure 100m SW 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.
Little Pinkerton,enclosure 100m SW 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 SM5839.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Thurston Mains,enclosure 600m WNW of (3.1 km), Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of (3.5 km), Black Loch,enclosure 350m SSE of (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Little Pinkerton,enclosure 100m SW of'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.
Little Pinkerton,enclosure 100m SW of stands on Reston Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate and [subequal/subordinate] sandstone, interbedded.