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Field Visit
Date 26 August 1958
Event ID 924957
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/924957
Linear Earthworks, Buzzart Dykes
A good factual account, of this earthwork is given by Childe and Graham in Proceedings, but they say nothing about its purpose. It is clearly not defensive, since the N side runs in the bottom of a gully and the ditch is inside the bank, and it can only be interpreted as a land boundary.
The scale of the work, a s it survives at present on the W side, is mor e substantial than that of the average mediaeval land boundary, but strongly recalls Wallace’s Trench in Selkirkshire, with which its measurements should be compared.
The circle marked on the map on the crest of the ridge just within the W side of the enclosure is surrounded by a ruined stone wall and looks like a genuine hut, but the other circles and cairns indicated on the map could not be inspected at the date of visit owing to the dense growth of heather and bracken.
Visited by RCAHMS (KAS) 26 August 1958
