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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 644550

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/644550

HY33SE 7 3682 3191.

(HY 3682 3191) Burnt Mound (NR)

OS 1:10,000 1977.

A burnt mound

RCAHMS 1946. Visited 1928.

A burnt mound, approximately 15.0 m in diameter and 1.0 m high. The centre has been excavated from the SW revealing part of a rectangular structure measuring 2.5 m NW-SE by at least 3.6 m and 0.8 m deep with walls of slabs on edge combined with dry stone work. It is open to the SW and seems to have been longer. At the NE end of the NW wall is a lintelled aumbry or recess measuring internally 0.6 by 0.5 m.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS(AA) 11 October 1972.

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