Field Walking

Date 2001

Event ID 610696

Category Recording

Type Field Walking

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NT 059 784

An area known as Nynia Well Field that showed a large rectangular cropmark was examined and fieldwalked where plouged. The well on the NE side has a cut stone surround on three sides. The cropmark extends N from the well to a stone-lined rectangular depression and thence W for over 200m to another rectangle less clear on the photograph; the final section of the cropmark runs N and peters out. No cropmark is visible on the N side of the photograph but fieldwalking indicated that the remains of a wall and ditch run along the N side of a flat-topped knoll. A small area of ploughed ground was walked on the N side of the rectangular depression; four sherds of medieval pottery were found and one ?pot lid.

The full length of the S side of the cropmark was in a ploughed area as was the SW corner rectangle; these were walked and two pieces of flint and one of chert was found.

Sponsors: Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society, Hopetoun Estate.

H MD Jones 2001