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Lochton Enclosure is a post-medieval earthwork situated in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. Located 250 metres south-south-east of Lochton itself, the monument survives as a substantial boundary feature within a landscape underlain by Inverclyde Group rocks—sandstone, siltstone and mudstone of Osagean age. The enclosure represents the agricultural or pastoral land management practices of the early modern period, when such defined plots became increasingly common across rural Scotland as farming communities reorganised their holdings and consolidated their land use.
The monument lies within terrain shaped by these ancient sedimentary deposits, which provide relatively stable ground suitable for settlement and stock management. Post-medieval enclosures of this type typically served multiple purposes: defining property boundaries, controlling livestock movement, and marking areas of improved ground or commercial activity. Their construction often drew on earlier field systems, adapting or replacing medieval arrangements as farming practices evolved.
The enclosure is protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland's designation SM5225, reflecting its value as evidence of rural settlement patterns and agricultural change during the post-medieval centuries. Such field monuments contribute significantly to understanding how communities in the Scottish Borders managed and exploited their landscape during this formative period of agricultural improvement.
Lochton,enclosure 250m SSE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5225. View the official record →
Lochton Enclosure is a post-medieval earthwork situated in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5225.
Lochton,enclosure 250m SSE 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.
Lochton,enclosure 250m SSE 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 SM5225.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Birgham Haugh,fort and enclosures 800m SW of (1 km), Redden,fort and enclosure 750m E of (1.2 km), Redden, settlement 60m SE of (1.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Lochton,enclosure 250m SSE 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.
Lochton,enclosure 250m SSE of stands on Inverclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Osagean. The rock here is sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.