Aberdeenshire HER - NJ72SW0180 - EAST BLAIRBOWIE

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Primary ReferenceNJ72SW0180
NameEAST BLAIRBOWIE
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HES SM No. NULL
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Site Form Crop Mark (Includes Soil Mark)
Site Condition AP visible Only
Details Cropmarks of a possible multi-vallate oval-shaped enclosure is visible on a GIS aerial photography overlay taken in 2002. It may be agricultural but the surrounding ditches appear to be almost complete and wider than tractor wheel width, with a large dark area in the centre. There are at least four ditches of varying thickness, which would perhaps suggest archaeology rather than agriculture. There is a very faint trace of an enclosure at this location on a vertical aerial photograph taken in 1977 by BKS. A watching brief (NJ72SW0210) was undertaken by Cameron Archaeology on September 16th 2016, during a topsoil strip of Trench 5, a 100m section of a cable corridor, 1.8m in width, through the eastern side of the area of cropmarks and adjacent to the East Blairbowie standing stone (NJ72SW0179), following on from a walkover survey ahead of cable laying for SSE (NJ62NE0181).
Last Update26/08/2024
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerMKG
Date of Compilation 

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National Grid Reference: NJ 7297 2287



Event Details

Event DateEvent TypeOASIS ID
2016 Watching-Brief

Excavations and Surveys


Artefact and Ecofact

Ecofact

Samples
Palynology
Ecofact Notes

Monument Types

Monument Type 1Monument Type 2Monument Type 3OrderProbability
ENCLOSURES MULTI-VALLATEA90
CROPMARKS AP VISIBLEB100