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Menie Links
Bank (Earthwork) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Menie Links
Classification Bank (Earthwork) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 20399
Site Number NJ92SE 8
NGR NJ 992 210
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20399
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Belhelvie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ92SE 8 992 210.
(Location cited as NJ 992 210 and name as Menie Links). Air photography (AAS/78/3/R1/18) has recorded a stone bank exposed in a deflation hollow immediately behind a foredune in a sand-dune system at an altitude of about 5m OD. It measures about 1.5m in thickness, is exposed over a length of 8m, runs roughly parallel to the coastline and protrudes from a small stabilising dune escarpment just above the winter water table.
Some stonework is apparent in the escarpment to the S of the feature and there are also four parallel pebble groups (about 3m long and 0.3m apart) to the E. The Old Land Surface is visible in an area adjacent to the stones on both E and W, and is probably associated with them; there is a marked absence of flint in this area.
NMRS, MS/712/86, visited 13 July 1978.
'Exposed in deflation area immediately behind foredune, running N-S roughly parallel to coastline. Visible over length of 8m: c. 1.5m wide.'
I B M Ralston and I A G Shepherd 1978.
This site was not visited during the course of the Strathdon survey.
Information from RCAHMS (JRS), 6 January 1997.
