Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718637

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT55SE 13 centred 5766 5012.

There is a small, grass-grown cairn some 160 yards E of the Haerfaulds (NT55SE 14), 900ft OD. It is 12 feet in diameter and 1 1/4 feet high. The remains of a hut circle, 12 feet in diameter, lie 50 yards SE. The moorland where they are situated is marked with rigs.

RCAHMS 1915, visited 1912

Some seven small cairns, about 18ft by 15ft, lie near the N side of Herrit's Dyke (Lin 531), about midway between Harefaulds and the point where the Dyke leaves the moor.

J H Craw 1923

A large area E of Haerfaulds, centered NT 5766 5012, has been under rig-and-furrow ploughing and there are many heaps of stones both old and recent in the area. Mr McDougal (farmer, Blythe), on whose land they lie, considers them all to be result of clearance. Some, however, have very much the appearance of small cairns and seem to have been avoided by the rig-and-furrow, though this cannot be stated with certainty. One of the cairn-like heaps is 150 yards E of Haerfaulds, in the position given by the RCAHMS, but it is no more definitely a cairn than the others. The hut circle could not be traced and the seven small cairns noted by Craw, probably other heaps in the complex, could not be specifically identified.

Visited by OS (CJP) 4 October 1956

Previous field report confirmed.

Visited by OS (RDL) 5 October 1962

Confirmed; approximately nine hectares of rig and furrow cultivation together with field clearance. Modern stone clearance dumps continue across the enclosed fields of Peat Law to the east.

Visited by OS (JRL) 28 May 1979.