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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 679694
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/679694
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Air photographs show a penannular enclosure, c.5m in diameter within a ditch c.1-2m in width, entrance c.2m wide in ESE. Ditch appears to thin in the SW sector towards the SE terminal. No trace of a bank. A number of linear and pit-like marks and two segments of possible pit circles may be seen in the vicinity.
A F Harding and G E Lee 1987.
Excavation prior to pan-busting showed this to be a mini-henge; beaker sherds were found in an external pit.
I Ralston 1988.
This Class I henge is plotted on a distribution map of henge monuments, ring-cairns, pit-circles and recumbent stone circles covering central and eastern Scotland (RCAHMS 1994, 39, fig. A).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 17 October 1997.
