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Remains of a settlement site. It comprises the remains of a farmstead with associated field system, of the period before agricultural improvements, overlying the remains of a settlement and field system of the Late Neolithic. Approximately 8 acres in extent. The pre-improvement settlement contains the remains of at least six rectangular buildings, now surviving largely as turf-covered footings, with associated field banks and the remains of a corn-drying kiln. Quantities of beaker-type pottery and flint work were found in a three-sided enclosure and it is likely that many of the other subdued banks in the area are associated with this earlier phase. Burial cairns were also found, one of which included an unusual kerb arrangement of large stones with a single large stone placed on a platform over the burial in the middle. A trial trench into a system of low banks at Auchmacher Clump by British Gas archaeologists revealed unabraded sherds of middle style/step 4 Beaker and a quantity of flint debitage.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)