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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 659162
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/659162
NS97NW 46.05 9237 7957
Trenching located the wall at this location, as it descends E to the Westquarter Burn; the wall was just over 4.3m wide and curved S in a shallow re-entrant, 8 degrees off line, for the crossing. In one trench the stone foundation was 0.46m thick (3 layers of stone), having been terraced to a level bottom 0.2m below the kerbstones; the wall itself consisted of a turf core netween clay cheeks. The ditch lay 5m to the N. Presumably because of periodic flooding it was formed of a central ditch only 2.5m wide and 1.2m deep between flat shelves dug only to a little over 0.5m.
S S Frere 1988
