Archaeology Notes

Event ID 643114

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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HU69SW 25 6012 9281

An enclosure or pund, formed of a series of large sepentine stones, lies on the summit of Hamara Field about 200yds NW of HU69SW 17 (a cist at HU 6004 9265)

Generally the stones are set singly edge to edge (the tallest measuring 3'6" high by 4'3" and 13" thick), but at the west corner, the setting seems to have assumed the character of a distinct wall, 3'4" thick, still traceable by the foundation courses. The SW side is particularly well-built. Stone 'B' in front of it does not seem to be displaced from the setting, but the significance of its position is uncertain. The opening 'A' in the NE may have been the entrance. The surface of the enclosure is level and does not differ in appearance from the ground outside, but near the centre are three large earth-fast stones as well as two which are loose.

RCAHMS 1946, visited 1934.

An enclosure of slabs set on edge as described and planned by the RCAHM at HU 6011 9283.

Date indeterminate.

Surveyed at 1/2500

Visited by OS (NKB), 18 May 1969.