Note
Date 1988
Event ID 1144885
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
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Rullion Green NT 2209 6224 NT26SW 8
There is a group of eleven ring enclosures on a level shoulder on the N side of Lawhead Hill. One was excavated in 1948 and a further eight between 1983 and 1985. Most of the excavated examples comprised double banks with a medial ditch, but two had only single banks and one of those had no ditch at all. The enclosures were annular or penannular on plan, with overall diameters of between 7.5m and 9.5m; they varied from 0.2m to 0.6m in depth, but all of them had been deliberately refilled. The inner banks were up to 2m broad and stood up to 0.3m above the surface of the refilled ditches, but the outer banks were very slight, some of them being barely visible before excavation. Small deposits of cremated bone were found on prepared surfaces within most of the enclosures; charcoal associated with one of these deposits has yielded a date of 635 ± 105 b.c. (GU-1755). A scatter of flint flakes and artefacts was also found (RMS, EQ 800-10).
RCAHMS 1988
(RCAHMS 1929, 75-6, no. 104; Stevenson 1972, 48-9; Watkins 1984; 1986; forthcoming)
