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Field Visit
Date August 1980
Event ID 1136824
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1136824
Castle O'er Estate, Linear Earthworks, NY 934 to 248 931, NY29SW 41 248
The existence of linear earthworks around Castle O'er fort (NY29SW 10) was first noted by William Roy in the mid-eighteenth century. In 1896, Richard Bell, a local antiquary, recorded an extensive system of 'trenches' on a map of the Castle O'er estate; this map is now in the Dumfries Museum. Although many of the features recorded by Bell appear to be old roads, tracks and stream gullies, there can be little doubt that large areas around the Castle O’er fort were once enclosed by linear earthworks in conjunction with natural features.
(S) NY 248 934 to 248 931; this linear earthwork links the gullies of Birkie Sike and Cleave Sike. Three linear earthworks can be identified on the E side of the River White Esk but no link can now be demonstrated with those on the W side; two (R and S) cut off the area around Slippery Knowe in conjunction with stream gullies and the White Esk.
See also NY29SW 9, NY29SW 10, NY29SW 32, 42-5, NY29SE 67, NY29SE 68 and NY29SE 70--72.
RCAHMS 1980, visited August 1980
(SRO, RHP 9629; Roy 1793, 120; Stat. Acct., xii, 1794, 607; Fraser 1878, ii, 467-8; Armstrong 1883, 147 and Appendix, p. viii, no. iii; Christison 1898, 159-62, 360-2; Bell 1905; RCAHMS 1920, pp. 71-3, Nos. 176-7; NMRS, DFD/156/1, DFD/157/1, DFD/303/39-4-2)
