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A watching brief was undertaken by Cameron Archaeology on September 16th 2016, during a topsoil strip of Trench 5, a 100m section of the cable corridor, 1.8m in width, following on from a walkover survey ahead of cable laying for SSE (NJ62NE0181). The trench ran through the eastern side of an area of cropmarks (NJ72SW0180) and adjacent to the East Blairbowie standing stone (NJ72SW0179). The topsoil consisted largely of a compact mid-brown silty clay with gritty inclusions, which overlaid a reddish-brown silty clay subsoil interspersed with small to medium-sized rocks ranging up to 0.6m in length, punctuated in several areas by a compact gritty, grey clay subsoil. The average depth of the topsoil was relatively thin, ranging between 0.2m and 0.32m in depth. No archaeological finds or features were recorded.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)