Archaeology Notes

Event ID 683776

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO14SW 66 from 114 411 to 106 415

See also NO14SW 30.

Air reconnaissance has revealed, in addition to the roads and quarry-pits noted on NO14SW 30, a narrow linear cropmark running from the scarp at Redgole Bank towards the point where the road divided, and then continuing beside the western fork. Sections dug in 1983-4 showed this to be a flat-bottomed channel or ditch, 1.07m wide at the top and 0.84m deep, in maximum dimensions. The feature was traced for nearly 1000m across gently-undulating ground towards the NW end of the plateau. That this was an unfinished trench dug to hold a line of wooden pipes conveying water from the upper reaches of the Millhole Burn as a temporary limited provision for Inchtuthil fortress (NO13NW 5) is an interesting conjecture, which remains unproven.

L F Pitts and J K St Joseph 1985