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Field Visit
Date 23 October 1973
Event ID 680772
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/680772
NO06SE 20 0545 6370.
At NO 0545 6370 excavated into a steep SW-facing slope are five sub-circular platforms (A - E) which may be hut stances but are rather different to the general style of hut circle in this locality. One (A) is reminiscent of the unenclosed platform houses of the border counties. With the exception of 'B' (which is a simple platform), each has the remains of a substantial stone wall around the forward half of the platform, with a considerable back scarp.
'A' measures c. 9.5m in diameter, edged in the NW by a wall spread to 3.0m. The entrance may have been in the mutilated W arc.
'B' is a platform 10.0m in diameter with a slight stony build-up around much of the perimeter. A slight dip in the S may indicate the entrance. 'C', roughly circular, is c. 8.2m in diameter.
'D', roughly oval, is 9.5m ESE-WNW by 8.0m, adjacent to 'C' but at a lower level, with no evident of inter-communication.
'E' is 14.5m NE-SW by 11.0m within a wall spread to 3.0m. The entrance is in the SW.
Another platform (F) occurs in a plantation to the NNW. It measures about 11.5m in diameter, is open to the SW and defined by a back scarp elsewhere. To the W of this on a knoll is a normal circular stone-walled hut (G), measuring 13.5m in diameter between the centres of a strong wall spread to 4.0m, showing several boulders in it. The entrance is in the NNE.
Their off-circular plan, well-defined condition, and position on the SW fringe of a large area of depop cultivation suggests that they could be due to recent activities, but an excavation of the entrance to 'E' by Mrs Stewart in 1972 produced charcoal and undecorated sherds of coarse pottery datable to the later half of the 1st millennium B C. (M E C Stewart) and the probability is that this is an Iron Age settlement. There are some stone clearance heaps amongst the heaps and lynchets of the late cultivation, which could be contemporary with the settlement, especially to the W of hut 'G'.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (AA) 23 October 1973
