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Field Visit
Date 1987
Event ID 1156670
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1156670
Cantick Head ND 3401 8905 ND 38 NW 6
Three low banks were reported by RCAHMS running N to S across the slope which rises sharply from W to E at the isthmus of Cantick Head. These are part of a larger complex, some of which lies on the low isthmus to the W, where similar banks appear to be associated with the settlement ND38NW 20. One such bank, running N to Sand ending at Hesti Geo, has indications of the distinctive Bronze Age sub-peat dyke construction utilising parallel erect slabs, and, where it ends at the cliff, the section shows a foundation of flat-laid slabs.
RCAHMS 1989, visited August 1987.
(RCAHMS 1946, ii, p, 340, additional to No. 1012; OR 1941).
