Newmains House
Pit Alignment(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Newmains House
Classification Pit Alignment(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 72750
Site Number NT57NW 96
NGR NT 51621 78700
NGR Description NT 517 782 to NT 515 791
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council East Lothian
- Parish Athelstaneford
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57NW 96 517 782 to 515 791
See also NT57NW 112.
A double ditched linear cropmark was revealed by aerial photographs to the W of New Mains farm.
RCAHMSAP 1990.
Aerial photographs have recorded a linear cropmark running N-S to the W of Newmains farmsteading (RCAHMSAP 1994). The narrow cropmark consists of two pit-defined lines, which run parallel for some 1500m crossing several modern field boundries and the B1377 public road. The northern end of the linear cropmark lies in a field E of Drem. Close to the W side of an enclosure at NT 515 795 (NT57NW 105) it disappears further to the S at a point N of Kilduff Hill (NT c.517 782). Other pit-alignments occur in the same general area.
To the W of these cropmarks a further linear cropmark has been recorded (NT57NW 112). This is depicted as a field boundary on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Haddingtonshire, 1865, sheet v) which continues as a zigzag cropmark in a southerly direction, and is visible in the SW corner of a field to the SW of Newmains farmsteading.
Information from RCAHMS (JH, KB) 18 May 1998
Note (27 September 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.