Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720668

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT66SW 7 609 635.

(Approx. NT 609 637) Small, Excavated Hollows, Redstone Rig: There are three small hollows with the excavated material thrown up towards their lower sides, situated some 1300ft OD, on the SW slope of Redstone Rig about 600 yards N of Faseny Cottage. 'A' is oval, 11ft NW-SE by 8ft and 1 1/2ft deep. 'B', 30 yards SE of 'A', is circular, 9 1/2ft in diameter by 1ft in depth. 'C', 70 yards S of 'B', is slightly oval with quite a prominent bank on the WSW. It measures 8 1/2ft WNW-ESE by 7ft and 2ft deep. (The RCAHMS, describing other, apparently similar hollows on NT66NW 4 note them as probably the remains of shielings.)

RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913

NT 609 635. These crudely excavated hollows are as described. They are not the remains of structures but appear to be disused shooting butts.

Visited by OS (JRL) 3 May 1979.