What is recorded here

Cocklaw is a medieval tower house and farmstead in the Scottish Borders where rig and furrow marks still split the land into shallow ridges. The stones and soil suggest people lived there long enough to shape the earth repeatedly, perhaps raising a tower to watch the valley or simply to keep rain off their heads. Whatever the tower guarded, the fields preserved the rhythm of hands working the land long after the building stopped being new.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Cocklaw as Cultivation Remains (period Unassigned), Farmstead (period Unassigned), Field System (period Unassigned), Rig and Furrow (medieval) - (post Medieval), Tower House (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Cocklaw is associated with medieval agricultural activity, evidenced by rig and furrow remains, indicating its use as a farmstead during the medieval period. It is remembered as an example of rural land management in medieval Scotland.

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