Oblique aerial view.
SC 1761049
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1984
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 1761049
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of A 22590
Scope and Content Raeburnfoot, enclosure and field system, Dumfries and Galloway On the low hill 300m west of Raeburnfoot steading are the cropmarks of an extensive field-system. In 1841 the New Statistical Account noted 'a square camp of large dimensions' which was presumably this site. These remarkable cropmarks show a rectilinear enclosure with an entrance to the east. Surrounding the enclosure is an extensive system of interconnecting ditches. Aerial survey can reveal the remains of buried archaeological sites. Cereal crops, such as barley grow to different heights: there is better growth over a buried ditch than over buried stones. This height difference is visible from the air as a cropmark. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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