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Wood Of Schivas
Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Wood Of Schivas
Classification Cultivation Remains (Period Unassigned), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Oldmill Of Schivas
Canmore ID 20460
Site Number NJ93NW 30
NGR NJ 902 353
NGR Description Centred NJ 902 353
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20460
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Tarves
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ93NW 30 centred 902 353
For hut-circle (NJ 9021 3521), see NJ93NW 25.
Intricate pattern of different types of rig and furrow covering an undulating area of 27.5 ha of cleared woodland on the N bank of the River Ythan. Rigs vary from regular, narrow and straight (up to 80m long) to moderately sinuous and in some areas are overlaid by depleted stone banks. A substantial trapezoidal enclosure contains 8 broad (?) spade ridges, while a stone walled hut circle (NJ93NW 25), c12m in diameter, a field clearance heap and other field boundaries also survive.
I A G Shepherd and S M Ralston 1981.
(Location cited as NJ 902 353). Wood of Schivas. This group of monuments is situated in a poorly-drained area of rough pasture at an altitude of between 40 and 50m OD.
Comprehensive description given with reference to field plan (not supplied).
Vertical air photography (BKS/GRC NJ93N 2721113) and Roy's Military Survey (1750) cited.
NMRS, MS/712/36, visited 27 August 1980.
