Aberdeenshire HER - NO67SW0004 - GREEN CAIRN

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Main Details

Primary ReferenceNO67SW0004
NameGREEN CAIRN
NRHE Card No.NO67SW1
NRHE Numlink 36125
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. NULL
Site Form Earthwork
Site Condition Incomplete
Details Remains of a vitrified fort, consisting of a denuded vitrified wall with no evident entrance. A gap in the southwest is a mutilation to facilitate robbing. Digging for road-metal in the north exposed four continuous boulders of the inner wall face and the partly vitrified rubble core. Cropmarks of three outer works can be seen as curving lines with a possible gap, circa 2.5m wide, evident in each. The line of the inner outerwork can be traced as a change of slope around the southeast side of the knoll and as a scarp around the southwest side. There is no sign of the other two continuing but they may have terminated on what would have been bog at the base of the knoll in the south and west.
Last Update20/08/2020
Updated Bycpalmer
Compiler 
Date of Compilation13/03/1979

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National Grid Reference: NO 6335 7230



Event Details

Event DateEvent TypeOASIS ID
1796 Excavation
1789 Field Observation
1971 Excavation

Excavations and Surveys


Artefact and Ecofact

Ecofact

Samples Carbon samples: material from posthole.
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
RAMPARTS  C100
CROPMARKS AP VISIBLED100
FORTS VITRIFIEDA100
DITCHESDEFENSIVE B100