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Old Bourtie
Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Old Bourtie
Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 168217
Site Number NJ72SE 200
NGR NJ 7960 2385
NGR Description NJ 7960 2385 to NJ 7976 2386
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/168217
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Bourtie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ72SE 200 7960 2385 to 7976 2386
An area of rig-and-furrow is visible in pasture on a terrace at the W end of Lawel Hill, some 210m NE of Old Bourtie farmsteading (NJ72SE 119). The rigs, which measure about 5m in breadth and 0.3m in height, are aligned N and S. They display evidence of two phases of cultivation, in the later of which every second rig was reduced in height.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 21 March 1996.
