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Watching Brief

Date 11 January 2011 - 1 March 2014

Event ID 1014132

Category Recording

Type Watching Brief

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1014132

Excavation and watching brief at Clashindarroch Windfarm, Huntly

A watching brief took place during groundbreaking works for the construction of new access roads and turbine bases outside of previously forested areas. The exception to this was where a new access road

passed to the north-west of Site 2, a farmhouse and associated structures to the east of the Oxter Burn. No archaeological remains were recorded along the new access roads.

The Oxter Burn settlement was part of Corrydown Township and the OS Second Edition map of 1901 shows various farm buildings and other agricultural infrastructure including a pond and sluice ('Sl' on the map). The surviving elements of the site were surveyed by GPS and a route for the new road agreed. This aimed to avoid all parts of the site with the exception of a ditch leading east from the pond. Although the area had been badly affected by commercial forestry, the ditch (or possible mill lead) from the pond was located during the watching brief.

Information from Tamlin Barton, Georgia Marina Andreou Ptychion and Ian Suddaby (CFA Archaeology) March 2014

OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-168458

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