Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690451

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO64NW 21 626 491.

NO 626 491. Cropmarks near Boysack Mills, photographed by RCAHMS, were excavated in advance of gravel extraction. The excavations revealed a shallow ditch enclosing a square area, 11m across, presumed to have been a barrow, with the remains of a timber-lined central burial under large boulders; a similar square enclosure, and a circular one of comparable size, both already cut in half by the quarry; and a much larger circular enclosure bounded by a ditch, with a probable entrance to the E.

D Reynolds, I Ralston and G Haggarty 1977.

The excavation archive from Boysack Mills has been catalogued. It consists of pencil and ink drawings, colour slides, black and white prints, manuscripts and correspondence.

Historic Scotland Archive Project (SW) 2002