Field Visit

Date 24 March 2022

Event ID 1156288

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156288

On a NW-facing slope in moorland immediately to the E of the public road that skirts the SW flank of Glenkitten Fell there is a disused quarry. The quarry measures about 16m from NW to SE by about 8m transversely and no more than 1m in depth. A trackway, which passes the quarry’s mouth on the NW, measures 1.5m to 1.8m across and has been consistently levelled into the natural slope. The track is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Wigtownshire 1849, Sheet 6), running from a point close to the public road (NX 1778 7217) and extending 1140m to the NE (NX 1862 7292) where it appears to terminate at a march dyke. It appears to have gone out of use by the end of the 19th century and is not shown on the 2nd edition of the map (Wigtownshire 1896, Sheet VI.NE). Much of the trackway now lies within a large conifer plantation though Airborne Laser Scanning data shows much of its length.

Visited by HES Archaeological Survey (J. Sherriff, A. Gannon) 24 March 2022.