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Thurston enclosure is a post-medieval field boundary or settlement enclosure located in East Lothian, some 800 metres west-north-west of Thurston village. The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM5896.
The enclosure lies upon bedrock of the Reston Group, a geological formation of Early Devonian age comprising interbedded conglomerate and sandstone. This naturally stony substrate would have provided ready material for boundary construction, a common practice in post-medieval land management across the lowlands of eastern Scotland. The rocky foundation also affects drainage and soil development across the site.
Post-medieval enclosures of this type typically represent organised field systems created as landholding practices intensified from the sixteenth century onwards. Such monuments preserve the physical imprint of agricultural improvement and land division, documenting how the Scottish countryside was reorganised during centuries of social and economic change.
Thurston,enclosure 800m WNW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5896. View the official record →
Thurston enclosure is a post-medieval field boundary or settlement enclosure located in East Lothian, some 800 metres west-north-west of Thurston village. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5896.
Thurston,enclosure 800m WNW 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.
Thurston,enclosure 800m WNW 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 SM5896.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Woodhall Farm,enclosure 600m E of (2.5 km), Blackcastle Hill,homestead 370m ENE of Post Office Mast (2.9 km), Blackcastle Hill,homestead 1300m SSE of Thurston Mains (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Thurston,enclosure 800m WNW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Thurston,enclosure 800m WNW of stands on Reston Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate and [subequal/subordinate] sandstone, interbedded.