Later Prehistoric Enclosed Site Evidence of Southern Scotland: A study of the sites from Peeblesshire, Berwickshire and E. Dumfriesshire

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This work studies the enclosed sites of Peeblesshire, Berwickshire and selected sites from E Dumfriesshire, Scotland. This area has seen very little interest in archaeological research in the past. The aim of the study was to examine the later prehistoric enclosed sites and to look at their landscape settings. From this data, possible settlement patterns can be observed, at both regional and local levels, and from these follow observations of enclosed sites together with their immediate terrain and archaeological features nearby, and from these an organised archaeological landscape can be seen, although it is a cumulative rather than a contemporary picture. When viewing the results from this study, a major boundary between two different enclosed site patterns can be detected, one including Berwickshire, Selkirkshire, Peeblesshire and far N – NW part of E Dumfriesshire, and the other one including the rest of E Dumfriesshire. This boundary differs from previously suggested ones and forms a firm basis for further studies on more than one level. Front Cover Title Page Copyright ABSTRACT TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION PART ONE: ENCLOSED SITE EVIDENCE OF PEEBLESSHIRE, BERWICKSHIRE AND E DUMFRIESSHIRE Chapter 2 THE EVIDENCE FROM PEEBLESSHIRE, BERWICKSHIRE AND E DUMFRIESSHIRE Chapter 3 CHRONOLOGY OF THE ENCLOSED SITES AND ROUNDHOUSES Chapter 4 THE ENCLOSED EXPERIENCE Chapter 5 MONUMENTAL/ IMPRESSIVE ENTRANCES PART TWO: PLANNING DOMESTIC SPACE AND TAMING THE WILD Chapter 6 ENCLOSED SITE PATTERNS IN THE LANDSCAPE Chapter 7 LATER PREHISTORIC LINEAR EARTHWORKS, POSSIBLY CONNECTED TO ENCLOSED SITES Chapter 8 ANOMALIES IN THE ENCLOSED SITE EVIDENCE PART THREE: ATTEMPT AT AN EXPLANATION Chapter 9 CONCLUSIONS References Appendices