Desk Based Assessment
Date 7 March 2017
Event ID 1019385
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019385
The land on which the Ardhallow Battery was built was bought by the War Office in 1899 and the extent of this area was defined by a series of boundary stones consecutively numbered from 1 to 12. When an additional parcel of ground was added to the S end of the area in 1907 that boundary was redrawn. Stones 7-12 all appear to have remained in place but stones 1, 5 and 6 were moved to reflect the new boundary. Stones 2, 3 and 4 were deemed redundant, something that is reflected in the inscription on stone 1 which indicates that the gap between stone 1 and stone 5 in their new positions was defined only by a straight length of field wall (FW). Accordingly, there is nothing now to see at the original position of stone 1 – by the roadside 30m E of the house known as ‘Rockvale’. The stone is described elsewhere (see NS17SE 6.12).
Information from HES Survey and Recording (JRS) 7 March 2017.
