Archaeology Notes

Event ID 728551

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX88SW 1.00 803 846

NX88SW 1.01 NX 802 844 Brockloch farmstead; tower; field-system

NX88SW 1.02 NX 802 845 Brockloch enclosures

NX88SW 1.03 NX 8014 8462 Brockloch homestead

NX88SW 1.04 NX 8008 8462 Brockloch cairn

NX88SW 1.05 NX 802 846 Brockloch field-system

NX88SW 1.06 NX 8000 8448 Brockloch burnt mounds

NX88SW 1.07 NX 8030 8473 Brockloch building (possible)

NX88SW 1.08 NX 806 848 Sundaywell field-system; buildings; enclosure

NX88SW 1.09 NX 806 850 Bogrie Linn farmstead

NX88SW 1.10 NX 8059 8551 Sundaywell building

NX88SW 1.11 NX 8056 8504 Bogrie Linn burnt mound

A - (NX 799 848) Tumuli (NR)

B - (NX 8034 8484, NX 8035 8484, NX 8037 8486) Tumuli (NR)

C - (NX 8081 8499) Tumulus (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

A - A group of at least a dozen cairns on a plateau on Sundaywell Moor. One, to the SW of the group, is at the E end of an ancient stony bank which follows an irregular line for some 80 yds to the W. At the N end of the plateau is a hut foundation with a circular chamber at one end. It measures 11' overall with an apparently oblong compartment attached. Across the outer end of this is a short length of modern walling.

A large cairnfield with an oblong monument at NX 801 848 marked by stones on its edges.

B - A small cairnfield and ancient banking at NX 803 849.

C - A grassy mound 15' by 11' which may be a cairn.

RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967

Centred: NX 803 846 - Throughout this whole area are many small clearance heaps and two lynchets of probable I A type. The majority of the area, however, is overlain by more recent clearance with associated boundary dykes and rectangular foundations. No hut circles were found nor are there any burial cairns.

Visited by OS (JP) 3 December 1973

'A' A group of about a dozen grass-covered ?clearance cairns averaging 3.0m in diameter and up to 0.4m in height. There are no contemporary field boundaries and no hut circles evident.

'B' A second group of a dozen cairns, similar in size and shape to those at 'A', together with two lynchets - one 60.0m long and the other 30.0m long. Within this general area are also some long, apparently later, spreads of cleared stones and a 3.0m long and 1.0m high stretch of walling which is probably the remains of a stock shelter.

'C' A pear-shaped stony mound 5.0m long, 3.0m average width and 0.4m high with nothing about it to suggest an antiquity.

Immediately below the cairn group 'B' is an old head dyke enclosing a network of ruined field walls, rectangular foundations and large irregular heaps of cleared stone. These remains indicate an area intensively farmed and subsequently deserted in relatively modern times, probably within the last two centuries.

It is evident that on this south-facing hillslope area of approximately 50 hectares there has been continued agricultural activity from prehistoric times.

Visited by OS (BS) 21 February 1978