Description

The monument comprises a stone with c. 30 small cupmarks, small cairns, and banks forming at least 3 field systems. The most regular field system consists of a series of 15 roughly parallel banks forming open ended fields and a group of at least 3 similar banks on a similar alignment. It is of particular interest because the local succession appears to be cairns and curvilinear banks succeeded by an open ended field system which in turn is succeeded by later cairns and another curvilinear bank system. The latest bank system appears to be contemporary with a small sub rectangular house measuring roughly 5m x 3m.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

The monument is of national importance to studies of pre-improvement agriculture because it preserves stratigraphical relationships between 3 systems of banks and at least 2 periods of small cairn accumulation, because the middle bank system defines open ended field system of the type found at Hill of Menmuir and because the succession demonstrates chronological depth in an otherwise apparently unitary collection of small cairns.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland