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Swindon Cottage is a post-medieval farmstead located approximately 700 metres south-east of Swindon in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. The settlement occupies bedrock geology of unnamed extrusive rocks dating to the Silurian to Devonian periods, comprising ancient mafic lavas and tuffs formed during the Devonian era. This underlying volcanic geology is characteristic of the Southern Uplands geology of the region.
The farmstead represents the pattern of dispersed rural settlement that developed across the Scottish Borders during the post-medieval period, following the consolidation of earlier medieval land use. Such farms typically combined agricultural land with associated buildings for livestock and crop storage, organised around a working domestic core.
The site is protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM5193, recognising its importance as evidence of rural settlement and farming practices in the region. The farmstead survives as a physical record of how communities adapted their settlement patterns and land use to the landscape and natural resources of the Borders countryside during the centuries following the medieval period.
Swindon Cottage,farmstead 700m SE of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5193. View the official record →
Swindon Cottage is a post-medieval farmstead located approximately 700 metres south-east of Swindon in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5193.
Swindon Cottage,farmstead 700m SE of dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a farmstead. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Swindon Cottage,farmstead 700m SE 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 SM5193.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Palisaded settlement on Trows Law (6.4 km), Romano-British farmstead, 700m north east of Trows (6.8 km), Iron Age and Romano-British settlements on Ward Law (6.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Swindon Cottage,farmstead 700m SE of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Swindon Cottage,farmstead 700m SE of stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.