Archaeology Notes

Event ID 690788

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO64NW 40 6192 4893.

NO 619 489. Settlement (Site), Boysack: In the field SW of Boysack, air photographs show at least five circular crop-marks, each measuring about 17m in diameter, which probably represent the sites of timber houses forming an unenclosed settlement. Close by there is a sixth circular mark measuring about 10m in diameter which appears to form the SW corner of a narrow sub-rectangular palisaded enclosure defined by pits measuring about 50m in length NW-SE by 15m in breadth. An area of rig-and-furrow cultivation crosses the field N-S.

RCAHMS 1978

Oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995) reveal the cropmarks of two souterrains, approximately 40m NE of the rectangular enclosure. The souterrains both measure about 12m in diameter.

Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 12 April 1999.