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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 717873
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/717873
NT53SW 7 541 337.
(NT 54153372) Earthwork (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1967)
The crop-mark, visible on air photographs, of a curving ditch in a cultivated field on the summit of Quarry Hill. One end runs into the east corner of the quarry while the other dies out a few yards to the south of an uncultivated rocky knoll on the west side of the field. The size and nature of the work cannot be determined on the slight evidence available but the commanding situation is eminently suitable for a prehisoric settlement.
RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949
No trace of this earthwork was found.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 6 February 1961
Though air photographs showed only a stretch of ditch some 50m long, resistivity and magnetometer surveys at this site showed it to be the mark of the SE side of the inner of two ditches enclosing an area of about 100m by 75m. This site has been damaged by a modern quarry on the N, and by the quarrying of a rock outcrop on the SW. It should now be regarded as a settlement.
R Jones (et al) 1991.
