Doolie Bridge

NJ73NE 46 795 379.

A sequence of settlement features established in two principal foci and covering an area of 2.5 ha. To the W, in rocky land bordering the flood plain, are three longhouses (middle house 17m by 2.5m internally) and two stone enclosures, while to the SE is a gently sloping terrace enclosed to the N by a substantial earthen bank and on the other sides by a low stone wall. It contains, in the SW corner, two longhouses and associated kailyards, the larger house being 15m by 3m. A hut circle, 7m in diameter, lies immediately N of an entrance gap in the bank. A sunken track links the fwo foci and winds down to a former river crossing. Two enclosures and other banks and dykes lie within this area, which is on a N facing slope immediately above the river. Traces of rigs underlie the present field dykes immediately S of this complex.

I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982.

(Location cited as NJ 7950 3820). Air photography has recorded an incomplete depopulated settlement on a moderate slope at an altitude of 50m OD. It comprises 4 enclosures, 5 longhouses. a hut-circle (measuring about 7m in diameter, o.08m in height and 1.3m wide with a gap in the NW), one enclosed field terrace, and various dykes and banks. The settlement is passed to the W by a sunken track leading to the river crossing. A later wall is built on top of earlier fottings and a depleted wall runs across the centre of an enclosure.

[Air photographic imagery listed].

NMRS, MS/712/35.

The township, comprising one unroofed building, one unroofed structure and four enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1873, sheet xxix). Two unroofed buildings and four enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1984).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 30 March 1999.