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Corbie Knowe

Enclosure (Period Unassigned)(Possible)

Site Name Corbie Knowe

Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)(Possible)

Canmore ID 143864

Site Number NO64NE 75

NGR NO 6918 4891

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Inverkeilor
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Angus
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO64NE 75 6918 4891

Oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995) show a possible rectilinear enclosure, immediately to the NW of Bird's Knap. The enclosure is situated on the slope of a mound (see NO64NE 4).

Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 20 April 1999.

Activities

Watching Brief (25 September 2018)

Alder Archaeology conducted a watching brief during the excavation of the footprint of a new beach hut, centred on NGR NO 69198 48870, at Corbie Knowe near Inverkeilor. Groundworks were carried out by a mechanical mini-digger with a toothless ditching bucket, which dug through natural beach sand and recent made ground. The work (site code JL03) was undertaken on 25th September 2018 in fine weather. No finds or features of archaeological interest were encountered.

Information from Alder Archaeology Ltd (C Fyles) 2018

OASIS ID: alderarc1-329609

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