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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715663
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715663
NT37SW 69 NT 34229 70337
See also NT37SW 23 and NT37SW 70 -6, 178-9 and 187.
NT 342 703. Enclosure 4, East Field, Inveresk: visible on aerial photographs.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
There is nothing visible on the ground.
Visited by OS (BS) 15 August 1975
?Homestead.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
This oval palisaded settlement has been recorded as cropmarks during aerial survey from 1977 onwards. It is located on gently sloping ground above and to the NW of the River Esk, about 700m to the E of Old Craighall, in an area with extensive cropmark evidence for rig cultivation. The settlement measures about 46m from NE to SW by up to 54m transversely within a narrow ditch, which probably supported a palisade. The nature of the cropmarks makes the position of the entrance uncertain, but it may have lain on the N arc. While there are no clear indications of buildings within the settlement, macular cropmarking suggests the presence of at least two roundhouses. Recent aerial reconnaissance (RCAHMSAP 2003) has revealed the cropmarks of at least two possible ring-ditches and additional evidence for rig cultivation immediately to the NNW of the settlement.
Information from RCAHMS (MMB) 16 May 2004
A palisaded settlement, roundhouses, pits and rig have been recorded as cropmarks on oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1977, 1979, 1981, 1986, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000) on level ground about 230m NNE of Smeaton (NT37SW 713). The palisaded settlement is oval in plan measuring about 45m to 50m across. What may be a roundhouse about 8m in diameter lies within the E side of the settlement. There is rig, a scatter of pits and further roundhouses to the N and W of the settlement. Two pit-alignments (NT37SW 70 and NT37SW 207 ) extend across the field to the W of the settlement.
Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 20 May 2004.
Site identified during an archaeological assessement carried out by CFA Archaeology Ltd.
Mhairi Hastie, 2006.
Field boundaries have been recorded as cropmarks on oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1979, 1992) extending from NT 3404 7044 to NT 3421 7034 and from NT 3401 7027 to NT 3422 7033. The latter boundary continues in to the adjacent field to the W.
Information from RCAHMS (BN) 5 May 2008
