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Latitude: 57.0674 / 57°4'2"N
Longitude: -2.2046 / 2°12'16"W
OS Eastings: 387690
OS Northings: 797388
OS Grid: NO876973
Mapcode National: GBR XL.3S1W
Mapcode Global: WH9R2.3MGF
Entry Name: Craigentath,field systems and houses 250m SE of
Scheduled Date: 24 March 1988
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4500
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement; Prehistoric ritual and funerary: enclosed cremation
Location: Maryculter
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: North Kincardine
Traditional County: Kincardineshire
The monument comprises field systems including parts of 6 linear banks and some 75 clearance cairns from 2 to 5m across and up to 0.6m high which appear to define small fields. A small spectacles-shaped turf and stone structure in the southern part of the area may be the remains of a domestic structure.
In the middle northern part of the area is a small enclosure measuring about 10m across over a stoney bank surrounding a hillside scoop. The area to be scheduled incorporates the structures described above with ground in which traces of activities associated with the structures will survive and measures 210m ENE/WSW by up to 150m transversely.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a fine example of a field system of the prehistoric period including clearance cairns and linear banks in stratigraphic relationship to each other and incorporating small domestic structures of unusual types, which has the potential to enlarge understanding of prehistoric farming practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the site as NO89NE 23.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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