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Mark

Gravel Pit (Post Medieval), Rectilinear Enclosure (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Sunken Floored Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Mark

Classification Gravel Pit (Post Medieval), Rectilinear Enclosure (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Sunken Floored Building (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible)

Canmore ID 82356

Site Number NX15NW 90

NGR NX 11144 57798

NGR Description Centre

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Inch
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Wigtown
  • Former County Wigtownshire

Archaeology Notes

NX15NW 90 111 577

Rectilinear enclosure.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Scheduled as enclosed settlement).

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 5 October 1999.

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Aerial Photographic Transcription (1 December 2011)

This rectilinear enclosure has been recorded as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1992). It is sub-rectangular in plan and defined by a ditch about 1.9m wide. The enclosed area is 48.2m by 28.1m but the whole W side is missing, and appears to have been incorporated into a modern field boundary. The field boundaries are not depicted on any of the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch maps.

Information from RCAHMS (KHJM) 1 Dec 2011

Note (24 August 2022)

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from CROPMARK(S) (PERIOD UNKNOWN), ENCLOSURE (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).

Aerial Photographic Interpretation (13 June 2022)

This enclosure, gravel pit and possible sunken floored building, which lie immediately E of Mark farmsteading, have been recorded as cropmarking on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1992). The enclosure measures about 48m from NW to SE by about 28m transversely within a ditch about 1.5m broad, but only the NE and SE sides of have been recorded. It lies in the NW corner of an arable field, a stream gully defining the SW edge of the field and a wall and a road the NW. A circular dark cropmark measuring about 12m in diameter is visible within the enclosure. A band of lighter cropmarking can be seen around much of its exterior and there is a slight depression visible in this location in airborne laser scanning data. Taken together, this indicates that the feature most probably represents a small gravel pit of probable post medieval date. A lozenge-shaped cropmark about 5m N of the gravel pit and measuring about 10m from NW to SE by 2.5-3m transversely may represent a sunken floored building of medieval or post medieval date.

Information from HES Archaeological Survey (K. Millican) 13 June 2022.

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