Archaeology Notes

Event ID 719418

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT77SW 1 70466 74279.

(NT 7049 7429) A semi-circular crop-mark is visible on air photographs (106G/Scot/UK121: 3425-6, flown 1946).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Ploughing has destroyed all traces of this earthwork. The S side of the site is formed by precipitous natural slopes, and although it is overlooked by higher ground to the N, it occupies a fairly good defensive position and could have been a small fort.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 28 March 1966

(NT 7049 7429) Earthwork (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map (1971)

Additional air photographs have been taken in 1976 (listed as an enclosure in RCAHMS catalogues).

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Scheduled as Glen Cottage, enclosure.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 November 1993.

This roughly circular settlement, which is situated on sloping ground to the N side of the Dry Burn, was first recorded as cropmarks on vertical aerial photographs taken in 1946 (RAF 106G/SCOT/UK 121; 3425-6) and has since been regularly recorded on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP and CUCAP). The enclosure ditch is visible in an arc on the N, while to the S the ground falls steeply to the Dry Burn, and the interior of the settlement may have measured at least 40m from E to W.

Information from RCAHMS (MMB) 12 April 2005