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Excavation

Date 22 September 2007 - 6 October 2007

Event ID 555983

Category Recording

Type Excavation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/555983

NJ 7792 1967 This was the third and final season of work at the site and took place 22 September-6 October 2007. An area of 300m2 was stripped immediately outside the S entrance to the previously excavated henge monument. It identified the position of one stone socket, which probably belonged to the southern avenue of the monument complex. Its position confirms the course of the avenue postulated by James Ritchie in the 1920s. Away from the monument were occasional postholes and a single pit, all without associated artefacts. Immediately outside the entrance and sharing the long axis of the henge monument was an almost circular setting of post pits approx 8.5m in diameter. There were no artefacts, but charcoal samples associated with the post pipes and with the weathering cones in the tops of the Archive to be deposited with RCAHMS.

Funder: Reading University, with help in kind from Aberdeenshire Council.

Richard Bradley and Amanda Clarke, 2007.

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