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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 647855

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT82SW 184 from 8375 2320 to 8390 2290

Vertical aerial photographs (RAF 106 G/Scot/UK 121 frames 4144-5: 20 June 1946) record an extensive area of contour cultivation over steep W-facing slopes of Kip Knowe between two tributaries at the head of the Atton Burn. The area has since been afforested destroying all trace of the cultivation which covered an area measuring between 120m to 230m from N to S by between 70m to 280m. The aerial photographs suggest that the cultivation overlay, and largely destroyed the lower part of an extensive area of contour cultivation (NT82SW 183) on the slopes above.

Information from RJ Mercer (University of Edinburgh) 24 March 1987

RCAHMS MS 2598. No. 13/141

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