Wood Of Wardford
Rig And Furrow (Medieval)
Site Name Wood Of Wardford
Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Braes Of Gight
Canmore ID 19795
Site Number NJ83NW 23
NGR NJ 835 391
NGR Description Centred NJ 835 391
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Methlick
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ83NW 23 centred 835 391
16.5 ha of well preserved rigs with a wavelength of c 4.8m on a NW facing slope of 11 degrees. The upper part of the slope has recently been improved , but rigs can still be detected as crop marks.
I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1982.
(Location cited as NJ 8340 3910: nominated as Site of Regional Significance). Air photography has recorded an area of rig-and-furrow cultivation over an area of about 16.5ha on a steep slope at an altitude of 50m OD. The narrow rigs are well preserved and have a wavelength of about 4.8m. At the break of slope, a scooped feature (possibly a quarry-pit) measuring 5m from E-W by 3m N-S is dug into the slope with a spoin bank downslope. The upper part of the slope was improved in about 1979 but the rigs can still be seen as cropmarks. The large recent field clearance-heap to the E of Craig Horror presumably contained stone from the improved area.
[Air photographic imagery, including verticals, listed and Roy's Military Survey cited].
NMRS, MS/712/35 and MS/712/36.
