Isle Of Canty
Earthwork (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Isle Of Canty
Classification Earthwork (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 49339
Site Number NT08NE 18
NGR NT 0579 8847
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49339
- Council Fife
- Parish Carnock
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
NT08NE 18 0579 8847.
(Name: NT 0579 8847) Camp (R) (Probable Site of)
OS 6"map, (1924)
There are now no remains of this camp on the ground, but Mr Syme (J Syme, Carnock) is positive as to the site. He is an old man and remembers the land on which the camp stood to have been open moor. The site, he says, was often pointed out to him by his father. He is the only person in Carnock who knows anything of the camp.
Name Book 1854.
All traces of this supposed camp have been removed.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 1925.
No trace.
Visited by OS (J L D) 28 March 1961.
Field Visit (16 May 1925)
Camp (supposed site), near Isle of Canty, Gowkhall.
All traces of the supposed camp at this site have been swept away.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 16 May 1925.
