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Field Visit
Date July 1970
Event ID 854541
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/854541
NS 942 202: Unenclosed Platform Settlement: On the NW flank of Mid Hill there is an unenclosed platform settlement ranged along the 300m contour from the Lintshie Gutter westwards to within 350m of the Hurl Burn. The thirteen platforms shown in RCAHMS 1978 fig.34 represent only the surviving elements of what was originally a much larger settlement extending further to the E beyond the stone wall that forms the W boundary of enclosed fields E of the Lintshie Gutter; cultivation, however, has virtually obliterated all traces of the platforms in this area, but a number of shallow depressions, too indefinite to plan, which mark their sites can still be seen on the surface of the ground.
At the W end of the settlement there is a compact group of nine platforms, disposed on three levels, the upper and middle tiers each having four platforms and the lower tier one. They range in width from 15.2m to 11.6m, the rear and front scarps reaching maximum heights of 2.9m and 2.1m respectively. The E half of the settlement contains four scattered platforms of similar average size, three of them on approximately the same level as the W group of nine, and the fourth well below them, 35m WSW of an electricity transmission pylon.
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1970
