Horndean Excavations

  • Start Date: 12th May 2025
  • End Date: 23rd May 2025
  • Time: 10am - 3pm
  • Venue: Horndean TD15 1XJ
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Horndean Excavations
Destination Tweed Project Officer Charlotte Douglas and Katie O’Connell from AOL Archaeology launch ‘Uncovering the Tweed’, Destination Tweed’s new community-based archaeology project. The 3-year initiative will investigate important sites of activity along the river and surrounding area to help shed new light on the history of the Tweed and its past communities. Picture Phil Wilkinson

Join the Uncovering the Tweed team for an excavation of the deserted medieval settlement at Horndean.

As part of our project investigating the deserted medieval settlements along the Tweed we will be undertaking a two week excavation at Horndean between the 12th to 17th May and 19th to 23rd May.

Get Involved with the Excavation

We will be heading out to excavate several trenches over the site to find out more about what features survive related to this settlement and provide more evidence for dating the site.

Not much is currently known about the site but the ‘drengs of Horndean’ are mentioned in the 12th century AD. Which indicates it was a settlement of some form by then. A dreng is a kind of feudal tenant with military duties or obligations.

S-shaped rig and furrow is visible to the south underlying more recent agricultural activity on the margins of the site and it is also located next to St Leonards hospital, noted on the 1st edition OS map.

Site hours will be between 10am and 3pm. Sign up for a day or two to try it out or come for longer! We recommend signing up for a series of consecutive days if you are able to, to get the most out the experience and try out different parts of the project.

Training in excavation and recording will be provided by archaeologists from AOC.

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