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Melbourne Crossroads Cursus Special Survey
Date 18 April 2013 - 26 June 2013
Event ID 1043651
Category Project
Type Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1043651
The discovery of a new cursus monument at Melbourne Crossroads by Strat Halliday, formerly of RCAHMS, was brought to the attention of Dave Cowley and Angela Gannon during a field visit in April 2013. The cursus is the longest so far discovered in Scotland and extends across a valley from Black Mount in the NNW to Broomy Law in the SSE covering a distance of almost 2.5km. The earthworks of both terminals survive, together with significant stretches of the sides, characterised by a bank and external ditch. Such was the importance of the discovery that RCAHMS took the opportunity to survey the monument by mapping the visible extent using differential GPS, and supplementing this with information derived from historic aerial photographs, particularly in the central section where the monument appeared to have been levelled by agricultural improvements or afforestation. The SSE terminal was also recorded in greater detail by terrestrial laser scanner and traditional plane table to explore and analyse the phased construction of the monument. This terminal was first recorded on oblique aerial photographs in 1991 when it was classified as field boundaries and possible clearance cairns. This classification has since been revised, a full description of the monument has been written and further aerial photographs have been catalogued.
Information from HES Survey and Recording 9 November 2018
