What is recorded here
In rough hill grazing on shallow bog on the lower SE-facing slopes of Knockmore with a view across Castlemain Harbour. The remains of both linear and curvilinear stretches of field walls (T 0.5m; H 0.1-0.5m) protrude above the surface of shallow bog in a roughly rectangular area (c. 190m ENE-WSW; c. 130m NNW-SSE). The remains of the walls consist mainly of intermittent, upright slabs set at right angles to the line of the wall. Hut site (KE045-075001-) is within the field walls.
Field system and hut site described by Cuppage (1986, 417, no. 1391) as follows; 'In rough wet pastureland, within an old field system. A circular enclosure, possibly the remains of a hut. It survives as a drystone-lined hollow which appears to have been excavated out of the centre of a natural mound. Abutting the wall, at the W side of the interior, is a rectangular, drystone-lined pit, 1.4 x 1.5m x .5m deep. D: c. 5.2m. H: 1m'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 7 April 2022
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