Archaeology Notes

Event ID 746180

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS93SW 45 940 335

On the S side of Tinto Hill N of March Wood (of which only the W half still exists) there are four house platforms and three small cairns. Described here from the W. A, at NS 9393 3351 measures 7m x 4m; B, at NS 9395 3351 is 14m x 5m; C, at NS 9404 3350 is 10m x 5m and D, at NS 9408 3350 is 18m x 10m. Access sides are W for A, E for B, E and W ? for C and W for D. Two cairns 1m in diameter cairn lies below A. 100m to the NW are several quarry like scoops which may have been platforms in the making, but never completed.

T Ward 1992.