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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 660337
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/660337
NH 549 489 Cropmarks, cluster of at least five ring-ditches, with possibly two square enclosures, to the N and E of the pentagonal enclosure 400m NW of Tarradale House. Diameter of the three largest circles is c 10-12m. Has the appearance of a barrow cemetery. Noted as 'three ring-ditches' in RCAHMS catalogue of APs, 1978, 18.
J S Bone 1996
Though previously described as ring-ditches, recent aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995) suggest that this is the site of a barrow cemetery containing at least 15 round and square barrows, situated 400m NW of Tarradale House (NH54NE 28), concentrated on the NW and SW side of a plantation bank (NH54NW 122). There are at least three square barrows measuring 5-6m across. The internal diameter of the larger round barrows, visible mainly to the NW side of the plantation bank, are approximately 13-16m. At least five of the barrows have a visible central pit which may represent burials. A possible large round barrow is situated immediately between these barrows (NH54NW 24).
Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 14 June 1999.
