Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685017

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO21NE 11 2696 1655.

(NO 2696 1655) Mote-Hill, Inchrye. - On the NE shore of Lindores Loch, but now separated from the water by the high road, is a small mote-hill lying 300 yards SW of the mansion of Inchrye Abbey. At one time surrounded by lochs of which only.... Lindores Loch... remains, the site has been singularly secure. The mount has been raised where the lower of two kaims... turns to merge in the higher. It is isolated on three sides.

It is circular on plan, and measures 51 1/2ft diameter at the base. It was formerly surrounded by a ditch, 5-10ft in breadth, now filled in. The summit, 19ft diameter, is 8 1/2ft above the level of the filled in ditch, and 26 1/2ft above the haugh from which the kaim rises.

RCAHMS 1933.

Generally as described by RCAHMS except that it is probable the ditch was on the NE side only. The base of the mound has been encircled by a footpath, now disused.

Surveyed at 1/2500.

Visited by OS (J L D) 29 October 1956 and (W D J) 13 May 1970.