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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 709669
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/709669
NT15SW 16 1335 5296.
(NT 133 529) There is a ring enclosure just under 3/4 mile SSE of Wakefield, 950' OD. It is 33' in diameter and has a 4' wide gap in the S part of its bank.
(Information from A McLaren notebook, 2, 81)
RCAHMS 1967, visited 1963
NT 1335 5296. There is a ring-enclosure measuring 10.5m in diameter within a turf bank 3.5m wide and 0.3 - 0.4m high situated on level ground c10.0m above an unnamed stream to the south. A gap or entrance is in the SW quadrant.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 18 February 1970
