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Note
Date 4 April 1989
Event ID 747144
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/747144
NO13NW 7.01 1279 3968.
The Women's Knowe is a tree-covered mound with the remains of a plantation bank around its base; it now measures at least 16m in diameter and 1m in height.
No internal structures or finds were noted when the mound was investigated shortly before 1793, but Abercromby's narrow trench of 1901 revealed a central long cist which was aligned E-W. It contained the remains of an extended inhumation and fragments of decayed wood. The grave was covered by a mound of clayish loam (measuring up to 15.5m in diameter by 2.7m in height), and this was surrounded by a ring-ditch.
At a later date (and after material from the primary mound had begun to wash into the ditch) a capping of stone (measuring up to 0.6m in thickness) was laid over both the mound and the ditch. This capping included quarried Gourdie stone (presumably robbed from the fortress rampart) and also fragments of Roman brick or tile and (possibly) glass.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS) 4 April 1989.
OSA 1791-9; J Abercromby, T Ross and J Anderson 1902.
