Ground Survey
Date 2006
Event ID 550720
Category Recording
Type Ground Survey
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/550720
NJ 4985 6436 A topographic survey was undertaken using plane table and automatic level. The site is now in thick woodland on the top of a small hill overlooking the Glen Burn. It is oval and aligned broadly E-W, delineated by a bank and ditch which formerly extended to around 80% of the circumference. The W end was left open with the gap extending to 16m. The E end has been quarried away in its entirety. Below the W end there is a concave hollow covering the remainder of the hilltop. The centre of this hollow appears formerly to have been damp, if not a pool, and has been deliberately drained by cutting a ditch. The extent and cut of this ditch suggest that the draining was relatively recent. Drawings were made of the boundary bank and ditch at three separate points and the whole hilltop surveyed.
Plans lodged with RCAHMS, Aberdeenshire Archaeology Service and NMS.
David Irving, David Anderson, Ken Cooper and Oliver Cooper, 2006.