Archaeology Notes

Event ID 687448

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO39SE 7 centred on 362 924

Five houses and two enclosures on a SW facing slope at 350m. Sinuous rigs with a wavelength of 9.2m run in a NW/SE direction within a head dyke. The site covers 8.8 ha in all.

I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982

Visible on air photographs AAS/93/05/G11/6-7. Copies held by Grampian Regional Council.

Information from M Greig, Grampian Regional Council, March 1994

(previously recorded as NO39SE 10) 2.5 ha of sinuous broad rigs on a N facing, 8 slope, inside a dyke which runs in a N and W-ward curve from Glen Muick 2 (NO39SE 7). One longhouse overlies the rigs near the middle of the cultivated area.

I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982

(previously recorded as NO39SE 10) (Location cited as NO 360 927). Glen Muick 3. Air photography (AAS/81/03/S2/9-14) has recorded sinuous rig on a N-facing 8-degree slope at an altitude of about 370m OD. One longhouse overlies the rigs.

NMRS, MS/712/6

A township comprising seven unroofed buildings, one of which is L-shaped, one roofed building, one enclosure and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1869, sheet xci). Five unroofed buildings, two enclosures and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 31 March 1999