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Mid Raeburn is a post-medieval enclosure located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, situated approximately 200 metres north-north-east of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4062. The enclosure occupies land underlain by the Hawick Group, a sequence of wacke sandstones formed during the Wenlock period of the Silurian era, which gives this region its characteristic hard, durable bedrock.
As a post-medieval field enclosure, the site represents the agricultural reorganisation and consolidation of land that occurred in rural Scotland following the sixteenth century. Such enclosures typically marked the transition from earlier communal or runrig farming practices to more defined individual holdings, reflecting changing patterns of land ownership and usage in the Borders region.
The survival of the enclosure boundary as an archaeological monument indicates its construction method, likely stone-built walls or substantial earth banks, which have proven robust enough to remain visible in the landscape. Its protected status recognises the value of such features in understanding the evolution of the rural Scottish countryside and the adaptation of communities to this undulating terrain of southern Scotland.
Mid Raeburn,enclosure 200m NNE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4062. View the official record →
Mid Raeburn is a post-medieval enclosure located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, situated approximately 200 metres north-north-east of the settlement from which it takes its name. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4062.
Mid Raeburn,enclosure 200m NNE 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 Raeburn,enclosure 200m NNE 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 SM4062.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Shielburn,settlement 350m NW of (8.9 km), Lyneholm,settlement 500m WSW and homestead 250m SW of (9.1 km), Deil's Jingle South, linear earthwork (9.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Mid Raeburn,enclosure 200m NNE 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 Raeburn,enclosure 200m NNE of stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.