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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 710155
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/710155
NT04SW 1 0095 4290.
Forrest (1843) shows a 'camp' at Cauldshoulders, measuring 100-120 feet in diameter; but it may be an old sheepfold.
G V Irving 1855
NT 0092 4294. An earthwork formed by a slight single bank, is non-defensive in character, and may be a tree-ring. Reference to Forrest's Map shows Cauldshoulders (now obsolete) a short distance E of this earthwork.
Visited by OS (JD) 13 June 1955
NT 009 429. Circular enclosure, 150 ft diameter, interior featureless. Ruinous turf bank - 10' thick, not more than 1' high. Slight shallow external ditch 5' wide, less than 1ft deep. No sign of entrance.
RCAHMS Field Notebook, visited 1965
NT 0095 4290. The enclosure, formed by an earth bank 2.5m wide, measures internally 25.0m NW-SE by 20.0m transversely, this non-defensive situation, encircling a low featureless knoll, and lack of an entrance suggest that this is possibly a tree-ring.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 30 July 1971
