Field Visit
Date 15 December 1998
Event ID 1011210
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011210
The cultivation terraces that adorn the NE face of Haggis Knowe are plotted at 1:5,550 on an archaeological map of Holyrood Park (RCAHMS 1999). The terraces vary in definition, the uppermost being shorter and less pronounced, but the best preserved measure between 3.3m and 3.8m in breadth and between 2m and 3m in height. The terraces are the result of ploughing along the slope, and, where they descend to the flatter ground adjacent to St Margaret's Loch, they become indistinguishable from rig-and-furrow cultivation. The CFA record the presence of at least three rigs to the NE of Haggis Knowe, aligned from NE to SW and extending for a distance of some 100m; these were not located during the course of the RCAHMS survey.
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 15 December 1998
NMRS, MS/726/96 (46-7, 60, nos. 26 and 50); RCAHMS 1999.
