Archaeology Notes

Event ID 692190

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/692190

NO68NW 3 606 897

First detected from the air (Aberdeen Archaeological Surveys), and distributed along c400m on the N of the burn, at an altitude of c210 - 240m in moorland, the following features were noted (E to W): one platform, c12m across, one ring-ditch house, c12m in diameter, and edged by a concentric low mound of stones in which the occasional larger block is visible, a suite of near-parallel, slightly sinuous dry-stone banks, about 40m apart, with traces of cross-dykes and stone clearance heaps, a more irregular structure (attached to the W bank) and two further ring-ditch houses. One is c12m in diameter and exhibits little sign of a delimiting bank: the second is c14m in diameter, slightly scarped into the hill-side, and edged by a dry-stone bank, especially on its SE, downslope, side. Further W is a possible, but rather decayed, hut circle, c9m across.

I Ralston and W Watt 1983.