Archaeology Notes

Event ID 670041

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ76SW 4 7213 6472.

(NJ 721 647) Camp (Remains of) (NR)

OS 25" map, Banffshire, 1st ed., (1869)

At the neck of the headland, Clibet Head (Cleaved Head) are several trenches originally used for burning kelp, as proved on examination.

W Forbes 1897.

NJ 7213 6472. Two ditches and traces of a third are evident at the neck of the promontory which ends at Cleaved Head. The construction of a golf course has altered the landscape around the ditches, but the easternmost ditch is still the best-preserved, having a scarp 1.5m high and a counterscarp 0.5m high. No evidence of fortification was seen on the flattish top of the promontory but it is possible that these ditches are all that remain of a promontory fort.

Resurveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (EGC) 23 September 1963.

No change.

Visited by OS (RL) 25 January 1968.

(Location cited as NJ 7213 6472: nominated as Site of Regional Significance). Air photography (AAS/77/11/SR/19 and AAS/77/11/RD/30, flown 17 August 1977) has recorded this incomplete promontory fort.

NMRS, MS/712/35.

Scheduled as 'Cleaved Head... promontory fort of prehistoric date, visible as upstanding earthworks.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 8 November 2005.