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Erskine's Knap

Barrow (Late Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age)(Possible), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Erskine's Knap

Classification Barrow (Late Neolithic) - (Early Bronze Age)(Possible), Motte (Medieval)(Possible)

Alternative Name(s) Scotston

Canmore ID 36526

Site Number NO77SW 17

NGR NO 73799 73455

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NO77SW 17 7379 7344

(NO 7379 7344) Erskine's Knap (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1971)

Possible motte or cairn.

Visible on OS air photographs 67/287/049-50, flown 27 July 1967.

Erskine's Knap is circular, and apparently artificial, measuring some 40m in diameter and 1.8m in height, much spread by ploughing. There is no trace of a ditch.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R L) 13 December 1967.

Listed.

Scottish Castle Survey 1988; N Bogdan and I B D Bryce 1991.

Scheduled as Erskine's Knap, burial mound 600m SE of Scotston.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated October 1991.

(Classified as site of cairn/cropmark). Air photographs: AAS/94/16/G30/29-30.

NMRS, MS/712/21.

(Name cited as Erskine's Knap and location as NO 7378 7345). Air photography (AAS/82/15/R24/6, flown 24 July 1982 and AAS/89/07/S20/5-7, flown 24 July 1989) has recorded the site of a ploughed out barrow or cairn. The cropmark of a circular ditch may be distinguished, within which there is a possible internal feature.

The monument is situated in arable ground on a gentle slope at an altitude of 95m OD.

NMRS, MS/712/107.

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Field Visit (March 1982)

Erskine's Knap NO 737 734 NO77SW 17

Erskine's Knap, a large mound about 600m SE of Scotston farmhouse, is probably a barrow; it measures 40m in diameter and 1.8m in height.

RCAHMS 1982, visited March 1982

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