What is recorded here

Rathanny holds a rectangular ditch beside ancient barrows, yet it may date only to post-1700 land reclamation rather than antiquity. That uncertainty gives the place its life: a modern field cut into old ground, where drainage and memory become hard to separate. The earthwork still shows in aerial images, marking human effort even when its purpose resists a single answer.

In reclaimed wet pasture, N of a group of twelve barrows (LI040-026002-/013) and 50m NW of large impressive ring-barrow (LI040-026001-). Not marked on OSi historic maps. Potential site identified as a rectangular shaped area defined by a ditch during examination of aerial photographs by the Discovery Programme. Possible monument visible as rectangular shaped cropmark (dims. c. 12m N-S; 16m E-W) defined by a ditch on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-13 and on Google Earth orthoimages. The linear cropmarks visible on this aerial may be the remains of drainage ditches associated with land reclamation of nearby Rathanny House. Doubtful antiquity, the earthwork may be defined by drainage ditches associated with post-1700 land reclamation works in this field. Earthwork is visible on oblique aerial photographs (CUCAP AVT026; AYO038) taken 20/07/1968 and 10/07/1969. See attached CUCAP and Bruff aerial photograph (2075 Site No. 3) and Google Earth orthoimages. Compiled by: Fiona Rooney Date of upload: 15 May 2021

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