Meldon Burn

Nearest town:
Peebles (4km E)
OS reference:
NT214429
OS sheet:
73
Latitude:
55° 40' 23.18 N
Longitude:
3° 14' 59.62 W
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Image of Meldon Burn (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Retrospective descending (a far from) Black Meldon

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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Image of Meldon Burn (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Looking west(ish) across the outer wall to the northern part of the inner enclosure.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 28, 2014
Image of Meldon Burn (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Approx north-western defences, looking to Black Meldon.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 28, 2014
Image of Meldon Burn (Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork) by GLADMAN

Retrospective of the exquisite location of the ‘settlement’ struggling up the ludicrously steep western flank of (hill fort and cairn crowned) White Meldon. The peak opposite is Black Meldon, also surmounted by hill fort.

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
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GLADMAN Jun 28, 2014

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Meldon Burn
Ancient Village / Settlement / Misc. Earthwork
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Jun 28, 2014

Anywhere else but here – set above the Meldon Burn between the towering hill forts of Black and White Meldon – this would be a headline monument worth a substantial trip in its own right. As a bonus site... well... the abundance of the archaeological and aesthetic riches available in the immediate locality takes the breath away as comprehensively as the brutal slogs to the aforementioned summits. Ideal as a less demanding – in a physical sense, at least – alternative visit, or as a post-exertion evening chill-out, proving the idiom that things aren’t always black or white..... (sorry).

Anyway, according to the RCAHMS 1967 (visited 1959) the settlement consists of:

“Two stone-walled enclosures, one of which has been built inside the other are situated on a broad natural terrace near the foot of the W slopes of White Meldon Hill. The earlier.. (is)... 220’ by 180’ ... surrounded by a heavy wall, 12’ in thickness... The later..... 165’ by 120’ within a wall consisting of a rubble core faced with heavy angular blocks....the collapsed debris indicate a thickness of 10’.”

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