Site type PIT DEFINED CURSUS
Canmore ID 85092
Site Number NY08NE 34
NGR NY 09514 89350
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish JOHNSTONE
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District ANNANDALE AND ESKDALE
Former County DUMFRIES-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NY08NE 34 09504 89370

For other features in this field, see NY08NE 26, NY08NE 36 and NY08NE 37.

Air photography (RCAHMSAP 1992) has recorded the cropmark traces of a pitted cursus on a level gravel terrace 300m NNW of Lochbrow steading (NY08NE 42). The full length of the cursus is not known, but it can be traced for a distance of at least 150m S from the bluff overlooking the River Annan on the N side of the field. The sides of the cursus lie about 20m apart, and a row of pits lying at right angles to this axis may belong to a transverse division rather than a terminal; at least one other line of pits can be seen on a slightly different axis.
Information from RCAHMS (SPH), 20 February 1996.

Pit-defined cursus.
RCAHMS 1997.

This pit-defined cursus is plotted 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): 98, 105, 107-10, 115, 296, no. 539, fig. 110 Held at RCAHMS A.1.7.DUM