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Fardenreoch
Pit (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Fardenreoch
Classification Pit (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 62514
Site Number NX28NW 4
NGR NX 2025 8641
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/62514
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Colmonell
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX28NW 4 2025 8641.
There was a "circular pit of considerable depth, lined with stone" near the Fardenreoch Cairn (NX28NW 5). No sizes are given (cf NS34SW 3).
J Smith 1895;
NX 2025 8641. Neither Mr Milroy, farmer of Fardenreoch, nor Miss Dunlop, daughter of the previous tenant, know of this pit. Close to the site of the cairn, on the bank above the Duisk, there are traces of a circle of stones, 0.8m in diameter. If this was the pit it has long been filled in, but it has been the same size as NS34SW 3 which is also sited by a river bank and has been classed as a probable "place of interment" but is more likely to have been a form of storage place.
Visited by OS (JD) 6 October 1955
Neither trace nor information was found regarding this feature.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 2 December 1970
Omitted from Archaeological Sites and Monuments of South Carrick (RCAHMS 1981) as nil antiquity.
RCAHMS 1981
