'Avenue' between banks of stone. (Two courses shown, from NT 95422858 to NT 95562853, and from NT 95462847 to NT 95542849). (1)
Extends from NT 95422850 to NT 95542850. The only 'avenue' visible is bounded by two old field banks that are associated with the other similar banks forming part of some fairly recent enclosure of the moor. (2)
Prehistoric trackway at Monday Cleugh. Scheduled on 15th April 1997, national monument number 24666.
The trackway forms aprt of the monument of Monday Cleugh Iron Age hillfort, located on the south west and west slopes of Harehope Hill. The hillfort is approached from the west via a 138m long trackway, 9m to 11m wide, bound each side by an earth and stone bank 3m wide and 0.75m high. The southern bank runs to the west entrance and the northern bank runs around the northern side of the hillfort to the crag edge where is lies 24m from the outer hillfort rampart. The trackway is an offshoot of another track, 420m long, which runs around the north west of Harehope Hill. For most of its length this is deeply cut into the hillslope with a bank 3m wide on the downslope side; the bank has a near vertical internal face with traces of stone lining. The track has a U-shaped profile and measures a maximum 10m wide by 1.5m deep. In places where the track is very shallow there are traces of a slight upcast bank on the upslope side. Towards the top of the hill the track splits in two and funnels out to a natural hollow c.25m wide; only the track leading to the hillfort is included in the monument which is marked by a bank 3m wide by 0.75m high on the east side and joins the offshoot trackway. Beyond this junction the track appears to continue in the natural hollow towards Monday Cleugh with traces of a shallow bank on ots northern edge, a sample pength of 10m is included in the monument.
The trackway is well preserved and will retain significant archaeological deposits. The monument is situated within an area of clustered archaeological sites of high quality and forms part of a wider archaeolgocial landscape. As such it will make a significant contribution to the study of the wider settlement pattern at this time. (3)