Archaeology Notes

Event ID 660198

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH55NE 5 5945 5779.

(NH 5945 5779) Fort (NR)

OS 1:1,000 map, 1974.

Culbokie, Henge Monument: A ditch 26' wide encloses a roughly circular area averaging 48' in diameter The present width of an entrance to the E is 33'. The diameter from crest to crest of the banks varies from 90' to 96'.

Feachem (R W Feachem 1963) states that, at frist sight, this is a Class I henge, but as the bank runs across the entrance causeway only excavation can determine whether the bank was originally fully annular. If so, this can at best be called a proto-henge or hengiform earthwork. Whether henge or not, it is extremely likely to be of about 2nd or 3rd millenium B C date.

A A Woodham 1955, R W Feachem 1963.

Probable henge, as described above.

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (N K B) 19 January 1965

Class I henge.

H A W Burl 1969.

Hengi-form site.

G J Wainwright 1969.

No change.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) March 1989.