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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 777212

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/777212

NJ26NW 59 centred 22200 68100

Air photography (AAS/96/04/G10/26-30 and AAS/96/04/G11/1-5, dated 25 June 1996) has recorded the cropmarks of numerous apparently-prehistoric features on an E-facing slope. These include rectangular enclosures with rounded corners, ring-ditches, a possible cursus and other pits and linear cropmarks. The possible cursus is represented by two parallel lines running across a field boundary, and has a possible pit within each open end.

NMRS, MS/712/11.

Reclassified as ring-ditches, bank barrow and unenclosed settlement.

NMRS, MS/712/17.

The following site has been identified over the summer season by aerial reconnaissance undertaken by Aberdeenshire Archaeology Service. Full information is held in Aberdeenshire and Moray SMR

NJ 223 681 Numerous cropmarks of prehistoric features, including rectangular enclosures with rounded corners and internal features, ring-ditches, pits and linear marks. Also ?bank barrow showing as two narrow parallel lines.

Sponsors: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland, Moray Council,

M Greig 1996.

[Area centred NJ 2225 6820]. Scheduled as Muirton, bank barrow, souterranis and enclosures... visible as cropmarks on oblique air photographs.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 11 November 2003.

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