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Multi-periodSite Name: Fasset Hill (Sourhope)Country: Scotland
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County: Scottish Borders Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Kirk Yetholm Nearest Village: Sourhope
Map Ref: NT8492520359
Latitude: 55.476815N Longitude: 2.240047W
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Anne T visited on 8th Oct 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 3 Fasset Hill Scooped Settlement, Sourhope: It was probably a silly time of year to look at this settlement, as the bracken was very tall, and probably also too late in the evening, as dusk was falling. But, hey ho, we were nearby and decided to walk back down to Sourhope Farm, and follow the track up Fasset Hill.
From Sourhope hillfort we walked back down the track to the farmhouse near the junction of the Sourhope and Kaim Burns, turned north east and walked over the wooden bridge at NT 84588 20250. From there we followed the metalled road up past a dump/quarry area, where the metalled road turns left/west and a stony track continues east. The Fasset Hill settlement is around the sheepfold on the hill just to the north of the track just past the ‘dump’.
The photographs don’t really do this site justice, as it was easier to see with the naked eye rather than catch it on photographs – the area was well defined on the ground. The sheepfold now occupies just west of centre, and what look to be the foundations of buildings can be found in its south east corner. The site looks like a building platform scooped out of the hillside. Canmore says it was probably constructed in Romano British times, and later reoccupied in the medieval.
There were a couple of other settlements nearby, but it was getting so dark, it was getting silly. We decided to walk swiftly back to the car and head home.
Canmore gives the grid references of this 100 x 170 ft rectangular enclosure as being from NT 84874 20361 to NT 84961 20347, on the southern flank of Fasset Hill, with excellent views to Sourhope (Park Law) hillfort to the south.
Recorded as Canmore ID 59389, the homestead was originally built in the Romano-British period then was re-occupied in medieval times. It has a modern sheepfield more or less in the centre: "The interior is divided by a ruined wall into two courts of roughly equal size, each of which has ben excavated into the hill-slope on the higher, N side to give a level floor. Access to the W court is provided by an entrance in the centre of the dividing wall, but any original structures in this court have been obliterated by a modern sheep-stell. In the SE corner of the E court, however, there are foundations of two buildings .... Each court has a slight terrace on the N side in the angle formed by the junction of the enclosure and dividing walls. Immediately outside the homestead on the W side there are two contiguous scooped hollows."
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