RCAHMS National Archaeological Survey, Ordnance Survey Map Revision

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Date 1997

Event ID 1112527

Category Project

Type Project

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RCAHMS National Archaeological Survey, Ordnance Survey Map Revision

Under the aegis of the Ordnance Survey Map Revision Programme, an area of 25km2 near Dunbeath was surveyed in which several new hut-circles and burnt mounds were recorded.

DES 1997, 88

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1112530	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	This cairn is as described by Davidson and Henshall (1991) and its position was resurveyed for the OS 1:2500 revision programme. [...]	August 1997
1112535	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	NAlthough the stone structure at the heart of this low stony mound has been discounted as the remains of a chamber by Davidson and Henshall (1991), it is difficult to see what else it may have been. The slabs are slighter than might have been expected of a chambered tomb, but they evidently outline more than the remains of a cist. Furthermore, there is little doubt that the stony mound is the remains of a cairn measuring about 16m in diameter. The position of the cairn was resurveyed for the OS 1:2500 revision programme. [...]	August 1997
1112540	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	Five heather and grass-grown hut-circles (lettered A-E and centred on ND 157 344) are situated amongst field clearance heaps and traces of field boundaries immediately to the S of a modern fence and an older ruinous stone dyke separating the improved fields from the open moorland at Minera. Hut-Circle 'E' has not been recorded previously. [...]	August 1997

RCAHMS National Archaeological Survey, Ordnance Survey Map Revision

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