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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 692092
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692092
NO77SW 17 7379 7344
(NO 7379 7344) Erskine's Knap (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1971)
Possible motte or cairn.
Visible on OS air photographs 67/287/049-50, flown 27 July 1967.
Erskine's Knap is circular, and apparently artificial, measuring some 40m in diameter and 1.8m in height, much spread by ploughing. There is no trace of a ditch.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 13 December 1967.
Listed.
Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.
Scheduled as Erskine's Knap, burial mound 600m SE of Scotston.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated October 1991.
(Classified as site of cairn/cropmark). Air photographs: AAS/94/16/G30/29-30.
NMRS, MS/712/21.
(Name cited as Erskine's Knap and location as NO 7378 7345). Air photography (AAS/82/15/R24/6, flown 24 July 1982 and AAS/89/07/S20/5-7, flown 24 July 1989) has recorded the site of a ploughed out barrow or cairn. The cropmark of a circular ditch may be distinguished, within which there is a possible internal feature.
The monument is situated in arable ground on a gentle slope at an altitude of 95m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/107.
