Howff Wood

NJ70NE 18 centred 761 095

(Location cited as NJ 7615 0950). On W/NW-facing slope, an area of rig and furrow along break of slope to top of hill in a narrow strip.

L Livingstone 1992

This area of rig-and furrow lies in what was formerly Howff Wood, some 580m SW of Skene House (NJ70NE 19.00). The northernmost rigs, which lie in a long shelter-belt extending NE from Howff Wood, are described separately (NJ70NE 125); the rigs within Howff Wood are arranged in plots displaying a variety of different alignments and widths, and they are described from N to S.

The rigs in the northernmost plot (centred NJ 7618 0945), which measure up to 9m in breadth by 0.45m in height, are aligned roughly NW and SE.

Immediately to the SE there is narrow plot (centred NJ 7619 0937) in which the rigs measure up to 4m in breadth and are aligned ENE and WSW.

Immediately SE again there is a plot (centred NJ 7624 0932) that is bounded on the ENE and WSW by cultivated fields. The rigs here measure 9m in breadth by up to 0.3m in height and they are aligned ENE and WSW. The rigs appear to be overlain by a mausoleum built in 1769 (NJ70NE 19.01).

Yet another plot lies immediately to the SE (centred 7629 0926), bounded on the S and ENE by cultivated fields. Here, the rigs measure 5m in breadth by up to 0.3m in height and they are aligned roughly WNW and ESE.

Extending W from this last plot are three more, aligned NNW and SSE (centred NJ 7623 0926), NE and SW (centred NJ 7618 0926), and NNW and SSE (centred NJ 7613 0924) respectively. The rigs in these plots are about 4m broad.

Visited by RCAHMS (ATW, ARG), 24 July 1998.