Arrat's Mill

NO65NW 39 6463 5857.

Tolan notes two pit-circles, one of them obscured by the cropmark of a souterrain.

M Tolan 1988.

Aerial reconnaissance has recorded a number of cropmarks in a field some 250m ENE of Arrat's Mill. There is an interrupted ring-ditch at NO6463 5857 measuring about 20m across with three gaps in it's perimeter and a curved souterrain-like cropmark extending through the gap to the E. What appears to be a four-poster setting lies by the gap on the W side (at NO 6462 5857) and is approximately 4m square. There are also two pit-circles within ring-ditches nearby. The first, at NO 6460 5854, lying to the SW of the interrupted ring-ditch, is about 12m in diameter within two arcs of ditch on the N and S sides some 16m apart. Any possible continuation of the ditch to the E is obscured by other cropmarkings, but there appears to be a break in the W side for a souterrain which also has two smaller passages leading off to the W and hooks around within the pit-circle to the E. The second pit-circle, at NO 6460 5861, is smaller, about 10m in diameter surrounded by a broad arc of ditch curving around the S side which obscures the probable pits on that side. Pits are clearly visible on the N side as well as a narrow outer ditch to the E about 4m from the inner broad ditch. There are other maculae and cultivation remains in the field.

Transcription prepared by RCAHMS (MMB) 23 January 1996.

Information from RCAHMS (RHM) 23 August 1996.