Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732177

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY48NE 8 4756 8890.

(NY 4756 8890) Enclosure (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

The remains of an oval enclosure, bounded by a grass-covered stony bank, lie on the E side of the Black Burn, between 400 ft and 500 ft OD. It measures 130 ft NW-SE by 100 ft transversely, and has been almost destroyed by flooding. There are no internal features, but a grassy foundation, 20 ft square, lies just SE of the enclosure.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1948

The mutilated remains of an enclosure are situated on low-lying ground beside the Black Burn. The turf-covered stony bank, best preserved on the N, is up to 1.0m high and 3.9m wide with slight traces of outer wall face on the NW side. Traces of another stony bank across the N of the enclosure appear to form a small, higher-level area. Gaps in the main bank in the S and E are probably mutilations; the original entrance is not apparent. Outside the enclosure on the E side are the turf-covered footings of a building, 8.0m by 5.5m. It is now too mutilated for positive classification.

Surveyed at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (TRG) 2 July 1979