Bonnyton Farm

NO65NE 55 666 560.

A number of flint tools as well as flint, agate and chalcedony flakes were picked up on a gravel and sand promontory which projects on the old flood plain of Montrose Basin. The flint tools comprised two thumb-nail scrapers, one side scraper and three worked flakes. All the finds are now in Montrose Museum.

J R Sherriff 1981.

NO 669 566 A small amount of fieldwalking was undertaken in the vicinity of a series of cropmarks lying above the 15m contour on the valley floor. These include a large ditch-defined cursus, Old Montrose (NMRS NO65NE 36), several ring-ditches, round and square barrows, a souterrain, settlement (enclosed and unenclosed), and agricultural traces. They also include a large kidney-shaped enclosure and represent a complex and long-term sequence of human activity. A lithic scatter was previously known (Sherriff 1981). Rewalking produced waste flakes and chips of flint from NO 667 562: none has secondary working. In a field centred on NO 669 566 - downslope of the cropmarks - two chips and an awl or borer were found. All are of reddish flint. Other fields produced occasional flakes or pieces. More work will be done in this area.

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K Brophy and E Stuart 1997

NO 666 560 Rewalked (Brophy and Stuart 1997) in unfavourable conditions. A small amount of lithic debitage was recovered. Geophysical survey showed rig and furrow but no other discernible features. Seven randomly located test-pits showed great variability of topsoil depth on the hillock top. No certain features were found and only a few lithics from the topsoil, including flint flakes, chips and a retouched flake of white agate, indicate that the scatter is widely dispersed through agriculture.

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E Stuart 1998.