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Submitted by Anne T on Monday, 23 July 2018 Page Views: 987
Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Talla Linnfoots Alternative Name: Coddleteth Burn (Talla Linnfoots); Talla ReservoirCountry: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 1.631 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Scottish Borders Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Moffat Nearest Village: Tweedmuir
Map Ref: NT13622069
Latitude: 55.472379N Longitude: 3.368012W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Anne T saw from a distance on 12th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 3 Access: 4 Cairn & Enclosure at south eastern end of Talla Reservoir: Our first, proper, stop of the day, as I can’t count the visit to Tweedmuir Kirk, as the stone we saw from from the 1600s.
This is a remote, but very pretty spot, albeit with tall, brooding hills around, only tempered by the gentle trickling of the Coddleteth Burn, Games Hope Burn and Talla Water, which join up before entering the reservoir lake.
We were prevented from getting right up to this cairn and enclosure by a long, continuous deer fence. I think I’ve photographed the cairn, but we had difficulty in seeing the enclosure on the ground.
The enclosure can just be seen, very faintly, on UK Grid Reference Finder.
Marked on the OS map, the entry for Canmore ID 194236 simply says: "As part of the continuing re-survey of Tweeddale the following principal sites have been recorded: NT 136 207 Cairns and enclosure. A full report has been lodged with the NMRS. Sponsors: Biggar Museum Trust, Peeblesshire Archaeological Society."
We stopped at the south eastern end of the reservoir (near the bridge at Talla Linnfoots), armed with our GPS, but were unable to get only half way from the road to the cairn and enclosure, stopped by a lengthy, tall deer fence, which we couldn't find a way through.
Scanning the landscape, and estimating the position of the cairn on the map, we could see this long, low mound which lies just to the west of Coddleteth Burn. Whilst the vague outlines of an enclosure can be made out on UK Grid Reference Finder, some 100m to the north west of this cairn, which looks to be sited on a shallower slope than the rest of the hillside.
I'm not sure if I've photographed the right monument, but any advice on how best to reach this site would be appreciated.
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