Archaeology Notes

Event ID 722329

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX16NE 56 1513 6696.

A small burnt mound is situated on the SE side of a shallow gully on Auld Taggart about 40m SW of NX16NE 54. The mound measures 4.8m from NNE to SSW by 3.2 m transversely and it is up to 0.5m high; the hollow in its open side measures 1.6m across the mouth by 1.4m transversely and faces WNW into the gully.

RCAHMS 1987, visited (SH) 15 July 1986

This was a small mound partially damaged by a drainage ditch. The mound was excavated in quadrants revealing two parts divided by a possible hearth area and an unlined trough cut into the glacial subsoil. An area of compacted stones was noted under the mound edge. Dating samples were taken for C-14 and possible TL.

C J Russell-White 1987.