Archaeology Notes

Event ID 802914

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ82NE 52 centred 8652 2867

(Location cited as NJ 8652 2867). Raitshill. Air photography (AAS/00/03/G7/18, 20-1 and AAS/00/03/CT63-6, flown 3 February 1999) has recorded an area of subdued and gorse-covered rig-and-furrow cultivation on a gentle slope.

NMRS, MS/712/92.

NJ 865 286 Area of subdued rig and furrow partially covered with gorse.

M Greig 2000.

Oblique aerial photography (AAS/00/03/G7/18, 20-21) has recorded an area of rig-and-furrow in uncultivated, gorse-covered, rough pasture about 280m N of Raitshill farmsteading (NJ82NE 59). The rig, which measures up to about 8m across is mainly aligned NW and SE, but a small plot at the SW edge is aligned ENE and WSW.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 13 August 2002.