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Palisaded Enclosure (Prehistoric)

Site Name East Cairnbeg

Classification Palisaded Enclosure (Prehistoric)

Canmore ID 36451

Site Number NO77NW 25

NGR NO 7109 7672

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Digital Images

SC 1011687

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg with the farmstead adjacent, looking to the WNW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1011689

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg, looking to the N.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1014985

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg with the farmstead adjacent, looking to the SE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1864331

Oblique aerial view from the Howe of the Mearns towards Kerloch, Aberdeen-shire, looking N.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

1989

SC 2411890

East Cairnbeg, NO77NW 25, Ordnance Survey index card, page number 1, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1011686

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg, looking to the WSW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1011688

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg with the farmstead adjacent, looking to the NW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

8/1978

SC 2411891

East Cairnbeg, NO77NW 25, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

SC 1014981

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg, looking to the SE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1970194

Aerial view of palisaded enclosure cropmark at East Cairnbeg, Fordoun, Aberdeenshire, looking NE.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

9/1978

SC 1011690

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg, looking to the NNE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

22/8/1978

SC 1011685

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg with the farmstead adjacent, looking to the NW.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

19/8/1978

SC 1014983

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg with the farmstead adjacent, looking to the ESE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1014984

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg with the farmstead adjacent, looking to the SSE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

20/7/1984

SC 1970305

Aerial view of palisaded enclosure cropmark, East Cairnbeg, near Fordoun, Aberdeenshire, looking NW.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

1984

SC 1011679

Oblique aerial view centred on the cropmarks of the double palisaded enclosure at East Cairnbeg, looking to the ENE.

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Records of Aberdeen Aerial Surveys, Aberdeen, Scotland

19/8/1978

Collections

Administrative Areas

Council Aberdeenshire
Parish Fordoun
Former Region Grampian
Former District Kincardine And Deeside
Former County Kincardineshire

Archaeology Notes

(Location cited as NO 7107 7675). East Cairnbeg. Air photography (AAS/78/8/R7/1-5, AAS/78/8/R10/6-8 and AAS/84/8-10/R20/8-12) has recorded the cropmarks of a double-palisaded oval enclosure in an area of disturbed arable ground at an altitude of 84m OD. It measures about 25m in diameter and the area of disturbed ground measures about 60m in diameter.

There is a possible circular enclosure about 20m to the NW.

NMRS, MS/712/36.

Activities

Field Visit (October 1981)

RCAHMS: The Archaeological Sites and Monuments of South Kincardine

East Cairnbeg NO 710 767 NO77NW

Cropmarks reveal an oval enclosure 180m E of East Cairnbeg farmhouse; it measures about 19m by 13m within double grooves. Nothing is visible on the ground

RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981

References

External Links

Aberdeenshire Historic Environment Record

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