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Kirkstile Knowe
Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Site Name Kirkstile Knowe
Classification Burnt Mound (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Ryecastle Burn; Broomhillbank Hill
Canmore ID 71260
Site Number NY19SW 28
NGR NY 12741 90394
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71260
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Applegarth
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Measured Survey (14 August 1990)
RCAHMS surveyed the burnt mound at Kirkstile Knowe on 14 August 1990 with plane-table and alidade, producing a plan at a scale of 1:125.
Field Visit (18 July 1990)
NY19SW 28 12741 90394
This burnt mound lies in a damp hollow on the S flank of Kirkstile Knowe, immediately to the E of a branch of the Ryecastle Burn. Roughly circular on plan, it measures 9.7m from NW to SE by 9.1m transversely and stands to a height of 1.4m. A hollow, opening to the NE, measures 4.7m from NE to SW by 4.3m transversely. The nature of the mound was tested by the removal of a turf revealing a mass of reddened angular fragments of stone and small pieces of charcoal within a matrix of loose black earth.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF) 18 July 1990.
Listed as burnt mound.
RCAHMS 1997.
