Document record MAB61510 - LETHAM GRANGE

Site of a souterrain discovered about the middle of the 19th century and exposed again about 1885 when it was probably removed.

Site of a souterrain discovered about the middle of the 19th century and exposed again about 1885 when it was probably removed. It was built into a gravelly bank, a dry, well-drained site, but otherwise little is known of it beyond the fact that one of the stones, robbed for building purposes, was later found to bear cup and cup-and-ring marks on both sides and was donated to the NMAS by John Hay in 1865. It is an irregular boulder of sandstone 31 inches x 44 inches x 11 inches thick and the whole surface being covered with cups 1-2 inches in diameter and circles 3 1/2 inches to 9 1/2 inches in diameter. This stone may have been a ringing stone as well according to M.C.Fagg. The description of the souterrain by J Simpson (1865) is of 'a structure about six feet in diameter, and six feet in height'. Wainwright's belief that this, like at Fithie, was merely a short section across a larger structure seems to be justified with the description of the 1885 uncovering which mentions a greater extent. The site is within a gravelly bank, dry and well-drained.

, (Photograph). SAB25212.

PSAS, 1868, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6, 233 (Bibliographic reference). SAB10422.

Simpson, J Y, 1868, Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6, 41-2 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9845.

WAINWRIGHT, F. T., 1963, THE SOUTERRAINS OF SOUTHERN PICTLAND, 193-4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB2085.

RCAHMS, 1978, [Untitled], 14, No.79; 19, No.124 (Bibliographic reference). SAB7728.

Morris, R W B, 1981, Brit Archaeol Rep Brit Ser 86, 153 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9310.

Sherriff, J R, 1984, [Untitled], 3, Ang 16 (Bibliographic reference). SAB9824.

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