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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 783214
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/783214
NJ30NE 9 3830 0927
Lime Kiln (disused) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1972.
The following site has been identified while checking maps held by Grampian Regional Council. Full information is held in GRC SMR.
NJ 383 092. Remains of a lime kiln.
Sponsor: Grampian Regional Council.
M Greig 1995.
This well-preserved limekiln has been set against a slope 70m SW of Hillockhead farmstead (NJ30NE 14) and measures 3.2m in height and 4.9m in diameter over walls 0.8m thick; the bowl has been infilled. The drawhole on the SE measures 2.2m in width by 1.95m in height at the mouth and 2.4m in depth. Additional support for the outer face of the kiln has been provided by a boulder revetment measuring up to 2.4m in thickness on either side of the draw-hole.
Visited by RCAHMS (RJCM, JRS), 31 July 1997.
