HES Special Survey 2019

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Date 2019

Event ID 1128313

Category Project

Type Project

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HES Special Survey

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Event	Type	Subtype	Notes	Date
1128356	RECORDING	MEASURED SURVEY	HES surveyed Cairnfield Muir henge with plane-table and alidade on 12 November 2018 at a scale of 1:100. GNSS data was also collected to record survey control and a section across the site. The resultant plan and section were redrawn in vector graphics software.	12 November 2018
1084848	RECORDING	FIELD VISIT	This grass- and scrub-grown enclosure, is situated free of tree-cover within the E corner of a coniferous plantation that represents the final phase in the restoration of a large gravel quarry, which lay immediately to the W and was active in the 1980s. The enclosure is slightly oval on plan and measures 32m in diameter from NW to SE by 29.5 transversely overall. A central area, measuring 7m from NNW to SSE by 6m transversely and 0.6m high, is surrounded by a silted ditch up to 8.5m broad and 0.5m deep. This, in turn, is enclosed within an external bank up to 9m thick and 0.6m high, with a crest that appears broadest on the SE. The central area has been disturbed and exhibits traces of a recent excavation up to 0.4m deep, while the ditch is continuous and reveals no sign of a causeway, although it is shallower on the E than on the W. It has been partly infilled on the S with grass-grown dumps of earth, within which is a rectangular pit measuring 2.4m from NW to SE by 1.9m transversely and 0.6m deep. The outer bank, which is also unbroken, has been slighted by arable cultivation on the E and by forestry ploughing on the S and W. Small spreads of field cleared stone are situated in the ditch on the WSW and at the foot of the bank on the NE. [...]	12 November 2018
1116604	RECORDING	MEASURED SURVEY	A survey of Blackmiddens farmstead and distillery was undertaken by HES in April 2019 at the request of the Cabrach Trust, as part of a broader initiative researching distilleries in north-east Scotland. The survey, involving plane-table survey and dGPS mapping, resulted in an overall site plan at a scale of 1:500, a plan of the courtyard steading at 1:100 as well as ground photography. A description of the site, presented as a PDF publication (WP007489), is based on the survey of the remains, evidence from historic maps, and information gleaned from a limited amount of documentary research. [...]	8 April 2019

HES Special Survey 2019

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