Trial Trench

Date September 1989 - September 1990

Event ID 551692

Category Recording

Type Trial Trench

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Manuscripts, photos and slides from the Barri Jones collection pertaining to the 3 trial trenches across the line of the enclosure at Balnageith.

On the gravel flood plain of the Findhorn and on the wartime airfield; a linear cropmark with a rounded corner was investigated. A triangular ditch, c4m wide and 2.5m deep was uncovered. An adjacent smaller ditch, c2.5m by 1.5m was also examined.

G D B Jones and I Keillar 1989.

Further investigations show that the two ditches reported in 1989 are a single V-section ditch, c3m wide and 1.5m deep. (The 1989 report of a 2.5m deep ditch was a typing error.) The sump is stone revetted.

Behind the corner there are five large square post-holes, one 400mm by 400mm. No artefacts or carbon found.

G D B Jones and I Keillar 1990b.