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Field Visit
Date 15 December 1998
Event ID 793919
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/793919
NT27SE 3942 2815 7329 to 2823 7362
See also NT27SE 3976.
An extensive area of rig-and-furrow cultivation can be seen on the lower slopes of Whinny Hill and is cut by the Queen's Drive. The rigs are best preserved on the S, where they extend for a maximum distance of 190m, curving S at their western ends and measuring from 7m to 8m in breadth and up to 0.3m in height. A linear feature has been cut roughly from N to S across the cultivation on the E side of the Queen's Drive, but its date and purpose are unknown. A small ring-ditch (NT27SE 3976), located immediately within the Park wall, also overlies the rigs. The rig-and-furrow and the ring-ditch are plotted at 1:5,550 on an archaeological map of Holyrood Park (RCAHMS 1999).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 15 December 1998.
NMRS, MS/726/96 (60-1, no. 51); RCAHMS 1999.
