Scheduled Monument
East Crossley,field systems and houses 600m NW ofSM4658
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 23/03/1989
- Type
- Prehistoric domestic and defensive: field clearance cairn, cairnfield; field or field system; hut circle, roundhouse, Secular: house
- Local Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Parish
- Fetteresso
- NGR
- NO 87289 96848
- Coordinates
- 387289, 796848
Description
The monument comprises at least 5 sinuous field banks and over 80 clearance cairns representing field systems of at least two periods. The cairns measure up to 5m in diameter and up to 0.6m high. The monument includes a fine hut circle measuring 10.5m across a surrounding bank 2m thick and 0.3m high and with its entrance on the ENE.
It includes also what may be a boat shaped house on a small knoll in a boggy area at the SE end of the field system. This house measures up to 12m EW and varies in width from 4m near the ends to 4.5m at its centre. There are traces of what may be a complex entrance arrangement at its W end.
The area to be scheduled includes the structures described above and ground in which traces of activities associated with their use will survive measuring up to 310m NW/SE by up to 150m NE/SW as delineated in red on the attached.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance as a fine example of overlapping field systems incorporating field banks and cairns and a hut circle, which have the potential to increase understanding of prehistoric houses and farming practices, while the later house, which is of particular interest since it is of the rare markedly boatshaped type, will improve understanding of pre-historic house types.
References
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