Field Visit
Date 15 December 1998
Event ID 1011207
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011207
Cultivation terraces lie to the NE and SE of Dunsapie Crag, immediately below the annexe of the fort NT27SE 49, and are plotted at 1:5,550 on an archaeological map of Holyrood Park (RCAHMS 1999). The group of terraces on the NE are aligned from N to S and extend obliquely across the hill-slope. They are narrowly spaced, measuring between 4m and 6m apart with scarps between 1m and 2m in height, and are probably the cumulative result of ploughing across the slope. Traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation lie immediately to the W, and may belong to the same agricultural system. The terraces of the second group, to the SE, are aligned from ENE to WSW and are between 4m and 11m broad with scarps 1m high. As they descend S into a boggy hollow, the terraces merge into rig-and-furrow suggesting that they too belong to the same agricultural system; the rigs measure between 6m and 7m in breadth.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 15 December 1998.
NMRS, MS/726/96 (48-9, no. 29); RCAHMS 1999.
