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Over Hartside enclosure is a post-medieval rectangular enclosure located 300 metres north of Over Hartside in Berwickshire, Scotland. The monument is protected as a Scheduled Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4555. The enclosure sits on bedrock of the Gala Group, a Silurian-age wacke formation of the Telychian period, which comprises the regional geology of the southern Scottish uplands.
The enclosure represents agricultural land management practices of the post-medieval period, when systematic division and organisation of pastoral and arable land became increasingly common in the Scottish Borders. Rectangular enclosures of this date typically served to define property boundaries, improve stock management, or consolidate holdings following reorganisation of settlement and land use.
The monument's survival on this upland site reflects the relative stability of field systems in areas where intensive modern agriculture did not obliterate earlier land divisions. The wacke bedrock underlying the enclosure would have influenced both its construction, requiring the exploitation of naturally fractured stone, and the agricultural potential of the ground, which in this exposed location would have been suited primarily to pastoral rather than arable use.
Over Hartside,enclosure 300m N of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4555. View the official record →
Over Hartside enclosure is a post-medieval rectangular enclosure located 300 metres north of Over Hartside in Berwickshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4555.
Over Hartside,enclosure 300m N 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.
Over Hartside,enclosure 300m N 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 SM4555.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowerhouse,fort 480m NW of (4.2 km), Cortleferry, scooped settlement 400m NW of (5.4 km), Hodge Cairn,fort,Shank Wood (5.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Over Hartside,enclosure 300m N of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Over Hartside,enclosure 300m N of stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.