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Capo Plantation
Long Barrow (Neolithic), Flake(S) (Flint)
Site Name Capo Plantation
Classification Long Barrow (Neolithic), Flake(S) (Flint)
Alternative Name(s) Inglismaldie Forest; Dalladies; Capo Long Barrow
Canmore ID 35956
Site Number NO66NW 28
NGR NO 63349 66470
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35956
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fettercairn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Kincardineshire
NO66NW 28 6332 6645
(NO 6332 6645) Tumulus (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1977)
This intact long barrow is situated in Forestry Commission woodland on Capo farm. It measures 80m long by 28m wide at the E end, 10m at the W end, and 2.5m high towards the E.
Information from Dr W Dally, Edzell to S Piggott; S Piggott 1970.
A long barrow, generally as described.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 18 August 1971.
Two flint flakes picked up on this long barrow are in the Archaeological Museum, University of St Andrews (Acc Nos.: 1978.1 and 2)
A J Barlow and J R Geldart 1978.
The barrow has recently been cleared of trees forming part of a conifer plantation; the immediate area of the barrow has been fenced.
The whole is enclosed by an earth bank still largely within the plantation and just escaping the clearances about the barrow. The bank averages 1m high by some 5m wide at base. It is generally bracken covered or clad with mossy grass; there are occasional trees on the bank itself.
At the NE corner a bank runs off NE, traced for 60m. In the S the E flank continues some 66m to terminate at the edge of the wood in a modern improved field. At the SW corner the south flank continues for some 6m, where it ends in a drainage ditch.
Survey by ACFA. Report and plan deposited with NMRS.
J S Wood 1990.
Scheduled as Capo Plantation, long barrow.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 March 2002.
Field Visit (September 1981)
Capo Plantation (KNC 9) NO 633 664 NO66NW 28
Situated on the edge of a gravel terrace in a forestry plantation 500m ENE of Capo farm house, there is a trapezoidal long barrow. Aligned ENE-WSW, it measures 73m in length and 22m at the broader (ENE) end, where it stands to a height of 2.5m.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1981
(Henshall 1972, 562)
Publication Account (1986)
This is a rare survival of an important type of neolithic monument, the earthen long barrow. Composed of scraped-up turf and earth, it appears to be intact. It is located on the edge of a low terrace above the river North Esk, and is 80 m long, 28 m wide at the east end and 2.5 m high. A very similar example was excavated (and subsequently removed in gravel quarrying) in 1971 at Dalladies, about 1.1 km to the north.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
Publication Account (1996)
This is a rare survival of an important type of neolithic monument, the earthen long barrow. Composed of scraped-up turf and earth, it appears to be intact. It is located on the edge of a low terrace above the river North Esk, and is 80m long, 28m wide at the east end and 2.5m high. A very similar example was excavated (and subsequently removed in gravel quarrying) in 1971 at Dalladies, about 1.1km to the north.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).
Resistivity (1999)
NO 633 664 A detailed survey of the long barrow within Capo Plantation (NMRS NO66NW 28), near Edzell, was undertaken and instances of damage or erosion noted.
Geophysical survey (resistivity profiling) of the monument was conducted during summer 1999. This technique may reveal elements of the internal structure of this monument as a series of pseudo-sections and may possibly provide a model of the internal structure in 3D by combining the profiles. The data from this survey is still being processed.
A detailed report will be lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsors: Historic Scotland, University of Edinburgh.
R Strachan and L Collier 1999.
