Archaeology Notes

Event ID 866559

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT96SW 7 NT 91190 60880

(A: NT 9118 6088; B: NT 9102 6087) Earthworks (NR) (sites of)

(For 'B', see NT96SW 6.)

OS 6" map, (1970).

Not to be confused with cropmarks of fort at NT 9102 6087, for which see NT96SW 6.

A: This circular fort lies 66 yds NE of that described on NT96SW 6. A much obliterated single rampart has followed the crest of a natural ridge on the W and N sides of the fort; the S side is ill-defined.

J H Craw 1921; J K St Joseph, flown 1948.

Situated on gently sloping ground, and consisting of a nearly circular shallow depressed area 70m in diameter E-W, surrounded by a much-spread rampart 0.6m in high and 10m broad except on the S quadrant where the rampart has disappeared.

Visited by OS(JFC) 2 November 1954.

Generally as described in the previous field report. A short length of what may have been a second rampart, now much spread, can be seen on the N side.

Sited to NT 9118 6088 at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 17 February 1966.

Cropmarks show a double ditched fort; the interior, measuring about 35m across, can be seen as a depression in the surface of the ground.

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979.

Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1980.

RCAHMS AP catalogue 1980.

Scheduled as '8 Aytonlaw Cottages, fort 210m W of... the remains of a multi-vallate promontory fort... visible as a cropmark... on oblique aerial photographs.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 30 March 2009.