Ednie
Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), House (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ednie
Classification Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Enclosure (Period Unassigned), House (Period Unassigned), Ring Ditch (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 131199
Site Number NK05SE 13
NGR NK 0893 5015
NGR Description Centred NK 0893 5015
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/131199
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish St Fergus
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NK05SE 13 centred 0893 5015
Air photography (AAS/98/05/G7/1-5 and AAS/98/05/CT/1-24, flown 28 May 1998) has recorded cropmarks in arable ground at an altitude of 35m OD. The features represented include the remains of a circular palisade with postholes; a timber hut-stance overlies the palisade on the S. The edge of a ring-ditch was recognised slightly further S, within the width of a gas pipeline trench. The area was destroyed on 3 June 1998, after excavation (in the previous month) by Richard Strachan (EUCFA).
NMRS, MS/712/34.
Site recorded during a watching brief and excavations undertaken on the route of the pipeline during May and June 1998. The route had previously been assessed (Strachan 1997).
NK 0893 5018 (centre) Site 6a consisted of a single, 14m diameter, multi-phased roundhouse of ring-groove construction overlain by a second, smaller structure to the S, and with associated post-holes and rough paving. A range of artefacts of flint, quartz, coarse stone and pottery were recovered.
NK 0894 5013 (centre) Site 6b consisted of a meandering ditch, with an alignment of seven post-pipes. Available evidence suggests that these features form the eastern side of a timber-lined passage of a ditched enclosure. Two slots may have formed a twin palisade alignment. A quantity of flint artefacts and pottery, including rim sherds, were retrieved from the fill of the enclosure ditch. The pottery is undecorated and appears to represent body sherds from large bucket-shaped vessels consistent with an Iron Age date.
A report has been lodged with NMRS and Aberdeenshire SMR.
Sponsor: Penspen Ltd for Scottish Hydro-Electric plc.
R Strachan 1998