Archaeology Notes

Event ID 765954

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ82NE 33.02 88121 28152

Lime Kiln [NAT]

OS 1:2500 map, 1975.

This limekiln has been built into the foot of a S-facing slope immediately N of a small flooded quarry (NJ82NE 82). Now falling into ruins, it is rectangular on plan and built of coursed rubble blocks. It measures 8.5m from N to S by 7m transversely overall, and has three drawholes, one of which is in the centre of the leading face, and the others in the E and W faces respectively. All the drawholes have been blocked with masonry, but the mouth of the one on the S is 2.15 m wide and 2.5m high. The pot is exposed in the top of the kiln and forms an inverted cone measuring 4.2m in maximum diameter and at least 3m in depth.

The kiln is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire,1870, sheet xlvi).

Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, JRS), 29 January 1997.