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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 875975

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/875975

NT42NE 71 centred 45600 28370

For Battle of Philiphaugh (around this location), see NT42NE 3.

Scheduled as 'Philiphaugh, settlement and burial ground 150m S of Calton Cottage... the buried remains of an early historic settlement... Cropmarks on aerial photographs indicate the positions of at least seven rectangular timber buildings and a further seven probable buildings with sunken floors, together with part of a substantial rectangular enclosure, a series of curved boundary ditches or enclosures, and an enclosed burial ground with around 90 graves laid out in rows.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 March 2011.

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