Archaeology Notes

Event ID 685359

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO21SE 12 27841 11517

(Area : NO 279 115) The earth-house was discovered about 1933 during ploughing. The laird refused permission for the site to be excavated and it was covered over. The exact spot cannot be identified (information from Mr H Munro, tenant, Kinloch Farm). A sandstone disc from the earth-house in the Bell Pettigrew Museum, St Andrews.

Visited by OS (D S) 29 October 1956.

The situation remains the same as described above. The field has been ploughed recently but there is no trace of the earth-house.

Visited by OS (W D J) 21 March 1967.

The site of the earth-house is on the top of a small hillock in cultivated ground, and fairly close to the N shore of Rossie Loch which was drained by 1726. The earth-house was discovered and partly excavated in 1933 by Mr Turner (D Turner, Woodside, Ladybank). Finds included a yellow bead, several animal teeth, and pieces of charcoal.

Information contained in letter and Mss note from D F O Russell 2 February 1968.

This souterrain was situated on the knoll centred NO 2783 1151.

Information contained in letter from C J Tabraham, 6 August 1971.

There is no trace of this souterrain in an arable field.

Visited by OS (B S) 20 September 1978.

This souterrain is revealed by cropmarks recorded by aerial photography 540m NW of Innerleith farmsteading. It is C-shaped and measures about 12m across, and narrows to where it hooks round to a probable entrance at the N end. A series of cropmarks have been recorded across the same field including those of an unenclosed settlement 75m to the W (NO21SE 33) and cultivation remains (NO21SE 32).

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 9 February 2000