Excavation

Date 1993

Event ID 560366

Category Recording

Type Excavation

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NS67SW 45.01 627 728

A N-S strip, c.5m wide, was examined by the CFA prior to pipelaying. The kerbs of the stone base of the wall, here terraced into a N-facing slope, were lost; the core was of cobbles bonded by stiff clay. The ditch, which lay c.10m to the N, was c.6m wide and c.2.5m deep, with a steep-sided profile and a square bottom. Samples of peaty ditch-fill removed for pollen analysis seem likely to yield an important environmental record.

L J F Keppie 1993.