Excavation

Date 1993

Event ID 1106407

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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(Location cited as NO 1520 4345). Assessment of this enclosure was undertaken at a proposed gravel extraction site. The aims of the assessment were to locate and establish the nature, extent and complexity of surviving archaeological features. Resistivity survey was undertaken across the site, and a number of trial trenches were positioned on the basis of the results. The good resolution obtained by resistivity survey indicated that the ditched enclosure had a diameter of c40m. Nine trenches were subsequently excavated at appropriate positions across the site. These results indicate neither a high density of surviving features nor the preservation of stratified archaeological deposits within the enclosure. The enclosing ditch was investigated in two places, although excavated fully only at one. Here the ditch survived up to 2.2m wide and 0.5m deep, and had undoubtedly been horizontally truncated by ploughing. It had a wide, shallow profile with a gently rounded base, and contained two discrete fills. A slight linear feature of unknown origin was located in association with charcoal deposits in one trench in the interior of the enclosure. Two further trenches within the enclosure revealed stake holes. As with the ditch, all these features have been truncated by ploughing. The remaining trenches produced no features of archaeological origin. Sponsor: Laird Brothers (Forfar) Ltd. CFA 1993.