Archaeology Notes

Event ID 778222

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT06SE 23 0873 6041 to 1060 6082

Identified from aerial photographs, an area of rig and furrow culivation and turf field boundaries on the southern edge of Harperrig Reservoir (see NT16SW 19), and centred on NT 0971 6038. From oblique aerial photographs and OS vertical photograph 73, 398/031, the rig can be seen to extend from the southern edge of the reservoir, as far S as NT 0956 5988, and from Cairns Castle Bridge, to as far E as NT 1060 6082. The rig seems to have been overlain by the reservoir, which does not appear until the time of the 2nd edition OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1895, sheet xii NW). It continues to the northern side of the reservoir (see NT16SW 18).

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 3 September 1998

A field-system and a separate length of wall, all marked by pecked lines and annotated Old Fences, (centred on NT 098 602) are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire 1853-6, sheet x). The fragmentary remains of the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 11 October 2000