Drylawhill


Site type: cursus

Parish: Prestonkirk

County: East Lothian

Grid reference: NT 5892 7790

Lat / long: 55.99234659, -2.658932825

The historic map is an Ordnance Survey map from 1919 to 1947, and is provided by the National Library of Scotland

Cropmarks here show up a cursus consisting of parallel ditches between 2 -3m wide, and separated by a distance of 60m, running for at least 300m approximately E to W. At the eastern end the cropmarks run to the field boundary and probably continued into the next field, although nothing is now visible in this field. N of the western part of the cursus is a further rectilinear enclosure of unknown purpose. This was the first cursus to be identified in SE Scotland.

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created Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm, last updated Friday, May 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm