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Mid Knock is a post-medieval enclosure located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, approximately 350 metres south-southwest of Mid Knock itself. The monument sits upon bedrock formed from the Hawick Group, a sequence of wacke deposits laid down during the Wenlock period of the Silurian. This durable greywacke sandstone, weathered and fractured, would have provided ready stone for construction of the enclosure walls and field boundaries typical of the period.
The enclosure represents the agricultural organisation of the post-medieval landscape, when Dumfriesshire's upland areas were being progressively enclosed and managed as defined fields and holdings. The placement of the monument on sloping terrain above underlying wacke bedrock reflects the practical choices of contemporary farmers, who worked with the natural geology to establish functional field systems suited to pastoral and arable use.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5173, recognising its significance to understanding the evolution of the Scottish rural landscape during the post-medieval period. The enclosure survives as a tangible record of land use and settlement patterns in this part of southern Scotland.
Mid Knock,enclosure 350m SSW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5173. View the official record →
Mid Knock is a post-medieval enclosure located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, approximately 350 metres south-southwest of Mid Knock itself. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5173.
Mid Knock,enclosure 350m SSW 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.
Mid Knock,enclosure 350m SSW 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 SM5173.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Gibb's Hill, unenclosed settlement,palisaded settlements & houses (6.5 km), Callisterhall,cairn 2550m NNE of (6.5 km), Greencleuch Cottage, settlement 1550m NNW of (6.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Mid Knock,enclosure 350m SSW 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.
Mid Knock,enclosure 350m SSW of stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.