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Field Visit
Date February 2000
Event ID 926218
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/926218
NT71NE 25
Chatto Craig
Cultivation Terraces; Rig and Furrow
NT 7674 1700
Hownam
This site was recorded as part of the Kale Water Survey project and is largely as described previously. A series of cultivation terraces are located in an area of rig and furrow on the E-facing slopes of Chatto Craig and Harbour Knowe. Several plots of broad curvilinear rig can be observed extending over an area of about 20ha, around Chatto Craig, from the NW to the SE scarps. The rig, which is generally aligned along the contour, is defined by deep furrows and often subdivided by shallow grooves. A field bank separates the cultivation remains from those further to the SW (NT71NE101- *see above entry*). A plot of broad curvilinear rig, defined by shallow grooves (centred at NT 7651 1674), overlies the earlier rig and the field bank about 200m to the NW of Chatto Craig Fort (NT71NE 43).
Several lengths of turf bank lie on the N slopes of Chatto Craig and may form part of a larger field system.
Visible on vertical aerial photographs OS 68/024/083
Information from RCAHMS (MFTR) February 2000
