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Blairfowl West

Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Blairfowl West

Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 19793

Site Number NJ83NW 21

NGR NJ 808 386

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Fyvie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ83NW 21 808 386

1 ha of low rigs, wavelength 5.5m, in pasture on a N facing slope, much of which has been taken into modern cultivation.

I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982.

(Location cited as NJ 8080 3860). Air photography (AAS/80/08/S7/20-4, flown 10 October 1980, and BKS vertical NJ83N 2731168, flown 1 June 1977) has recorded an incomplete area of rig-and-furrow cultivation on a steep slope at an altitude of 50m OD. The individual rigs are broad and low in form.

[Roy's Military Survey cited].

NMRS, MS/712/35.

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