Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729902

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY29NE 3 centred 2525 9937

(Centred NY 2525 9937) Hut Circles (NR)

OS 6" map (1965)

Situated around the summit of a small prominent knoll c. 200m N of Raeburnfoot is a group of five hut circles or enclosures varying in diameter from 5.0m to 7.0m, formed by turf-covered banks. No entrances were seen in any of these structures. Some 115m SE of the knoll is another oval-shaped enclosure measuring 11.0m x 6.4m formed by an earth-and-stone bank 2.1m wide by 0.4m high. Part of this bank has been obliterated at the E end.

Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 August 1962

A group of five enclosures generally as described. There is no trace of the one to the SE. They are all "sod dykes" for use as sheep pens. See also type site NY29NE 16.

Visited by OS (IA) 9 October 1973.