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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 677073
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677073
NN60SE 16 6890 0070
This monument comprises the remains of an enclosed settlement of prehistoric date represented by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs. It lies in arable farmland at around 70m OD at the foot of a steep slope, and comprises a roughly oval enclosure measuring some 40m NW-SE by about 30m within a ditch approximately 4m wide which has a SE-facing entrance.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 26 November 1996.
This enclosure is plotted on a distribution map of henge monuments and penannular ring-ditches covering southern Scotland (RCAHMS 1994, 39, fig. A; RCAHMS 1997, 116, fig. 111).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 30 September 1997.
