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Cropmarks of a palisaded enclosure. The outer trace is possibly of a ditch, the inner trace is possibly the arc of a palisade. Eastern half of enclosure contains a putative open square feature. Possible homestead. Test-pitting was carried out across the south end of this field in 2004 as part of a programme of investigation in the area (NJ81NW0198) for the Kintore Landscape Project. The work recovered 12 flints and one quartz artefact, and two pieces of slag which appear to be part of a background level of Neolithic and Bronze Age activity. An excavation was undertaken across this site in 2005. Sections were excavated across the ditches of the enclosure - it was broad with a flat base measuring circa 4.6 m wide and 0.7 m deep, with a line of stones at its base. There was no trace of a recut. There were traces of a collapsed bank at its eastern side. The lower fills were charcoal rich and the base of a large hand-thrown pot was recovered from the fill.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)