Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732683

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY28SW 5 2240 8116

(NY 2240 8116) Settlement (NR)

OS 25" map (1971)

This settlement, described as a fort by the RCAHMS (1920), situated at the N end of a ridge, is a circular rubble bank some 62.0m in diameter, with an outer ditch and counterscarp bank surviving on the S side. There is an entrance in the NE with an out-turning of the bank on the E side. The bank has been destroyed on the W side. The interior is irregular but there is no trace of huts.

An oval annexe measuring approximately 44.0m N-S by 40.0m transversely has been added to the S side and extends along the ridge. Only slight traces survive but it shows clearly on aerial photographs (540/RAF/1540, F22: 0113-4).

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JP) 26 June 1970

Scheduled as 'Minsca, settlement 295m WNW of...'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 27 January 2010.