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Desk Based Assessment
Date 1 November 1956
Event ID 930957
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/930957
NO40NE 1 4964 0877.
To the east of Lingo Big Wood is a small earthwork reduced by cultivation, on flat and marshy ground. It is rectangular on plan, with rounded corners, bank, and external ditch, and measures 104ft E-W and 77ft N-S, overall. The ditch, the west side of which incorporates part of an old watercourse, is from 10ft-14ft in width, but is not more than 18" deep now. The bank, which is traceable only on east and west is less than 1ft high and is spread to a mean width of 15ft. There is no definite indication of an entrance, and the interior is featureless.
The shape and situation of the earthwork and the fact that it had a wet ditch fed by a stream, suggest that it is a medieval homestead moat.
Information from OS (JFC) 1 November 1956
K Steer, RCAHMS, MS notes, 1954
