Field Visit

Date 18 July 1991

Event ID 553799

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/553799

NC 6870 4178: Burnt Mound. This burnt mound is situated on the E side of a boggy gully within the ring-dyke of Rosal Township, some 60m ESE of the entrance to the Forestry Commission walk. It comprises two oval mounds set parallel to each other across the slope; merging with the natural slope to the SE and opening out to the NW. It measures 7.4m from NE to SW by 5.7m transversely and up to 0.6m in height. Exposures in both arms revealed cracked stone set in a matrix of black soil.

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 18 July 1991.