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Setter Noost

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Setter Noost


Iron Age settlement - RCAHMS record no. HY41NE 13 at HY47301621 is believed to cover an area of about forty metres square by including more midden and various lumps and bumps above the shore. In 1972 in the low shore twenty metres west of a ruined lime kin in a seventeen metre exposure the O.S. saw several orthostats and bits of drystane wall as well as a midden 1.3 metres thick. At the west end of this an obvious external wall-face was in 1985 thought to be from some kind of round house, and quite a large one at that. In 1998 the Setter Noust site is described as walling indicative of an early structure and tumbled stone, with pot and bone and burnt stone in the extended midden [
wideford Posted by wideford
5th March 2021ce

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An erdhus was found somewhere between here and Balfour Castle - Balfour Castle is based on an earlier grand house called Cliffdale, and sometime prior to 1796, close to the site of several failed lead mines, a souterrain came to light. RCAHMS record no. HY41NE 12 (location unknown) was sunk about a yard deep and had a roof of large slabs set on four foot high pillars (aka masonry piers). It comprised twin hexagonal cells, each about 8' across, and a rectangular one the same. A finger-ring of gold came from this passage.
wideford Posted by wideford
5th March 2021ce
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