Archaeology Notes

Event ID 677433

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN60SW 4 6450 0036.

(NN 6450 0036) Keir (NR).

OS 6" map, (1958)

This site ('Keir' is evidently a corruption of 'Caer' = fort) (Chalmers 1887-94), is apparently artificial, and features a bank without a ditch, a type of antiquity that Crawford tentatively suggests may be a broch, a theory, however, that is not to be fully accepted without further investigation (OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford, 9 June 1937). Chrystal (1903) also supports this suggestion. This particular example is oval in shape (See NN60SW 5 and NN60SE 8 for similar sites).

Name Book 1898; A Chalmers 1887-94; W Chrystal 1903.

The site is a partially tree-covered, natural knoll, mutilated by old quarries, on the flattish summit of which is a low, oval-shaped, earth and stone mound, c.22.0m NE/SW by 17.0m transversely and 0.5m high, badly mutilated by surface quarrying. Although the situation is a suitable one for a defensive work, such as a dun, no conclusions can be reached from field observations.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (E G C) 18 October 1968.