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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 663756
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/663756
NH74NW 26 734 487.
NH 734 487. Air photography has revealed what may be an unenclosed settlement 450m SW of Lonnie farmhouse. It comprises a ring-ditch about 13m in diameter which contains a ring of pits; an arc of a possible second ring-ditch;and a pit-circle.
RCAHMS 1979; Visible on RCAHMS air photographs IN 3092-4: flown 1977.
Tolan notes two pit-circles, each surrounded by a ring-ditch.
M Tolan 1988.
Recent aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1996) has revealed additional cropmarks suggesting that this is an unenclosed settlement with at least three round houses each comprising of a ring-ditch enclosing a pit-circle, with an internal diameter of about 15m. The most westerly has a broad outer ditch, while the other two have narrow arcs of ditch surrounding the pit-circle. A number of pits are scattered around the immediate area of the round houses. These cropmarks were previously interpreted as enclosures and pit-circles, then as an unenclosed settlement and pit-circle. The remains of a chambered cairn and the cropmarks of two enclosures have been recorded in the surrounding area (NH74NW 14, NH74NW 48, NH74NW 87 ).
Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 28 March 2000.
