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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 769850
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/769850
NO59NW 33 532 992
?Native settlement, Aboyne. NO 532 992.
(Undated) information in CUCAP card index.
(Location cited as NO 5310 9910: nominated as Site of Regional Significance). Air photography has recorded the cropmarks of a timber house site on a gentle slope at an altitude of 125m OD. It is circular on plan and measures about 30m in diameter. A thin ring is enclosed by a thicker ring and post-holes are visible in the interior; the entrance was possibly on the E.
[Air photographic imagery listed].
NMRS, MS/712/35 and MS/712/36.
Classified as Heogan, palisaded enclosure... the remains of an enclosure and timber house of later prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs. The monument lies in arable farmland at an altitude of around 120m OD on the outskirts of Aboyne.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 October 2003.
