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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731390

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/731390

NY29SE 2 253 911 to 258 939

(NY 253 911 to NY 283 965) Deil's Jingle (NR)

OS 6" map (1957).

See also NY29SW 10 and NY29SE 4.

The 'Deil's Jingle', which extends from NY 253 911 to NY 283 965 (see map diagram) is a linear feature comprised of detached portions of a ditched mound similar to the "Deil's Dyke" (see LIN 111), for which Graham and Feachem, in the absence of dating evidence, suggest a Dark Age origin. (Information from O G S Crawford 16 March 1939)

RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; A Graham and R W Feachem 1956

Linear earthwork perambulated from NY 2534 9112 to NY 2600 9419. (See map diagram).

Revised at 25".

Visited by OS (WDJ) 29 August 1962 and (DWR) 16 October 1973

No change to previous field report.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (BS) 17 October 1978

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