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Auchowrie
Potato Pit (19th Century)(Possible), Still (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Auchowrie
Classification Potato Pit (19th Century)(Possible), Still (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 98814
Site Number NO57SW 4
NGR NO 5045 7307
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/98814
- Council Angus
- Parish Lethnot And Navar
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO57SW 4 5045 7307
Structure discovered by D A Gardener and F Thornton of Arbroath the former undertaking and exploratory excavation.
F T Wainwright 1951
NO 5045 7307. A possible kiln.
Information from F T Wainwright to Ordnance Survey 20 May 1956.
A possible 19th century storage pit (potatoes) or, as locally believed, an illicit still. An elongated drystone structure 2.5m long, built into the hillside, and tapering from 1.2m wide at the entrance to 0.5m in the bank. A small part is covered but the whole structure has been corbelled. The present wall is 0.8m high and the entrance is flanked by two large boulders, one of them 1.2m high. Similar structures are found elsewhere in the Angus glens, e.g. Waterhead: NO47SE 2.
Visited by OS (JLD) 18 July 1958
