Building record MAB18643 - CASTLE FRASER

Low banked linear feature visible as a raised bank circa 0.2m high and circa 2m wide with occasional stones on the surface.

Low banked linear feature visible as a raised bank circa 0.2m high and circa 2m wide with occasional stones on the surface. A test pit was dug through the feature by MAS in September 2014 on the line of a proposed new drain. Two modern pipes were found in the section, one a field drain. The raised features appears to be the somewhat disturbed line of a culvert, possibly with the remnant of a drystone wall on the top. There are no features on the 1788 map on this line, although drains were not always marked. An 1846 estate map shows a line, possibly a culvert or drain, taking water to a lake in what is now woodland to the northeast of the driveway. This appears to be on the line of the recorded feature, although its poor construction suggests it may never have been very efficient at carrying water. A second test pit to the west found nothing of archaeological significance.

MURRAY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SERVICES, 2014, CASTLE FRASER, ABERDEENSHIRE, DRAIN TEST PIT: ARCHAEOLOGICAL TEST PIT, Test pit report (Bibliographic reference). SAB5163.

ARCAHEOLOGY SCOTLAND, 2015, DISCOVERY AND EXCAVATION IN SCOTLAND. NEW SERIES, VOLUME 15, 2014, p.19 (Bibliographic reference). SAB5542.

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Nov 10 2020 11:31AM