Archaeology Notes

Event ID 785478

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT22SW 19 200 241

NT 200 241 Craigie Rig Droveway sign-wall

A new class of minor monument is suggested, that of 'droveway sign-wall', so named by analogy with 'road sign-post'. Its function was to warn drovers that a droveway ahead was forbidden by reason of danger or trespass. Its structure is an isolated length of drystone wall, 3-50m in length. Eight examples are known to date. They also mark droveways and indicate the direction of droving.

W Lonie 1995