Description

This is an area of features on the N and W sides of a rocky ridge overlooking the Lingdowey Burn NNW of Craigengale. There is a Y-shaped junction between three thick stony banks visible on the crest of a low ridge 150m SW of Auld Taggart farmstead. All the banks disappear beneath the peat, but the SW arm briefly re-emerges on a rock outcrop 45m to the SW. There are traces of a possible enclosure

in the angle between the SW and N arms.

A small rectangular enclosure measuring 6.4m by 5.6m within a low stony bank is visible 90m W of the above and there are about 8 small cairns scattered across a hollow in the hillside to the SW of this. A junction between two banks is also visible in this hollow.

The area proposed for scheduling is a rectangle with its corners at:- S NX1486 6643, W NX1476 6654, N NX1493 6668 and E NX1502 6657, as marked in red on the accompanying map.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

Statement of Scheduling

This monument is of national importance as an area of much, probably multi-period, agricultural activity which clearly shows the effect that the peat has in covering, obscuring and preserving archaeology. It is especially important because it lies between an area where Medieval monuments survive more and one where Bronze Age monument are predominant and thus has the potential to furnish evidence as to the full extent of Medieval farming activity and land-use fluctuations in this marginal zone.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 99.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland