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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 722683
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/722683
NT86SE 6 NT 89920 61546
(NT 8990 6155) Earthwork (NR) (site of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1973).
A native settlement is visible as crop marks on an air photograph.
J K St Joseph.
Nothing is visible in a recently ploughed field except for a slight depression which possibly indicates the extent of the inner 'ring' of the earthwork.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 26 January 1966.
The site of a strongly defended settlement is revealed by cropmarks 450m S of East Reston Mill. Roughly oval on plan, it measures a maximum of 50m in diameter within two concentric ditches set about 13m apart.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.
Further photographs taken in 1979 (listed as a fort).
RCAHMS AP catalogue 1979.
Scheduled as 'East Reston, settlement 490m NW of...'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 30 March 2009.
