Site type PIT DEFINED CURSUS
Canmore ID 72312
Site Number NY08NW 24
NGR NY 04900 84991
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish TINWALD
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District NITHSDALE
Former County DUMFRIES-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NY08NW 24 04900 84991

See also NY08NW 11.

Pit-enclosure lies within Trailflat roman temporary camp (NY08NW 11).
RCAHMSAP 1989.

The cropmarks of a narrow pit-defined enclosure have been photographed within the Roman Temporary Camp (NY08NW 11) at Trailflat. The enclosure measures at least 50m from WNW to ESE by 15m transversely, and is comparable to other pit-defined cursus monuments recorded by aerial photography. Only the W terminal can be made out with any clarity and this appears to be square-ended. It is plotted as a cursus monument on a distribution map of Neolithic monuments covering southern Scotland (RCAHMS 1997, 115, fig. 110).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG), 7 April 1998

RCAHMS (1997a) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape, Edinburgh
Page(s): 115, fig. 110 Held at RCAHMS A.1.7.DUM