Archaeology Notes

Event ID 739832

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ52SE 29 centred 58423 24862

Formerly entered at cited location NJ 583 248.

(Location cited as NJ 584 249 and name as Cotetown). Air photography (AAS/83/11/R28/2-6 and AAS/83/14/R31/5-8) has recorded the cropmarks of about ten ring-ditches, which may represent houses, at an altitude of 190m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/53.

Scheduled as 'Johnston, unenclosed settlement... an unenclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique air photographs.' It is situated in gently sloping ground in a cultivated field, 195-200m ababove sea level.

(Location revised on evidence of map attached to scheduling document).

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 1 March 2007.