Raitshill
Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Raitshill
Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 157947
Site Number NJ82NE 52
NGR NJ 8652 2867
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/157947
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tarves
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ82NE 52 centred 8652 2867
(Location cited as NJ 8652 2867). Raitshill. Air photography (AAS/00/03/G7/18, 20-1 and AAS/00/03/CT63-6, flown 3 February 1999) has recorded an area of subdued and gorse-covered rig-and-furrow cultivation on a gentle slope.
NMRS, MS/712/92.
NJ 865 286 Area of subdued rig and furrow partially covered with gorse.
M Greig 2000.
Oblique aerial photography (AAS/00/03/G7/18, 20-21) has recorded an area of rig-and-furrow in uncultivated, gorse-covered, rough pasture about 280m N of Raitshill farmsteading (NJ82NE 59). The rig, which measures up to about 8m across is mainly aligned NW and SE, but a small plot at the SW edge is aligned ENE and WSW.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 13 August 2002.
