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Excavation
Date 1979
Event ID 570838
Category Recording
Type Excavation
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NS 770 777 (See also NS77NE 28) Excavation to locate a 'watch-tower' recorded in 1872 proved unsuccessful, but the line of the Wall was checked for a distance of 90m. Up to six layers of turf were visible above the stonework. Lengths of cobbling 0.6m S of the stone base and a stone dyke two courses high, overlying fallen turf, represent repairs to prevent slippage. A platform had been added to the S kerb of the Wall foundation. It was one stone thick and measured 12m E-W by 18m, with wing-walls, one at least 4.5m long, projecting from its southern corners. It showed considerable signs of burning and seems not to have supported a turf stack. A trench was dug to the south, to establish whether it lay within a ditched enclosure of the type observed near Balmuildy (NS57SE 19), but no such ditch was found.
F O Grew 1980.
