Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718322

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT55NW 3 5218 5725.

(NT 5218 5725) Old Sheepfold (NAT)

OS 6" map (1862)

An oval homestead is situated on the S edge of the summit of Tollishill Dod. Oval on plan, it measures some 90ft by 55ft within a single bank and ditch. The bank has been entirely weathered away on the SE half of the enclosure, while on the NW it is only a few inches high; it is composed of earth and small stones from the ditch. The ditch, nowhere more than 2ft deep, was presumably intended merely to drain the site, and to provide material for the bank. The entrance, in the SW, is 9ft wide and opens into a scooped court, behind which is a slightly raised house platform.

RCAHMS MS, visited 1952

When visited in 1955 and 1956, this homestead, situated on a S-facing slope, was generally as described above.

Visited by OS (JD) 13 May 1955 and (CJP) 3 October 1956

No change to the previous information.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (BS) 24 April 1979