Building record MAB9489 - NEW KINORD GROUP

Settlement of stone-walled houses, stock enclosures and droveways.

Settlement of stone-walled houses, stock enclosures and droveways. The site was systematically recorded by Sir Alexander Ogston (sometime physician to Queen Victoria) in 1931. The contiguous structures A, B and E on Ogston's plan have been interpreted as houses. Hut A is massively walled and sunken floored, measuring 19 m in diameter. Hut B appears to consist of a hut circle enclosed by a stone wall, measuring 18 m in diameter. Hut E measures 17 m in diameter with a souterrain opening off of it. There is a hollow way on the west side. Two enclosures (R and D on Ogston's plan) lie to the north and south of the huts. Enclosure D is contiguous with Hut A, and measures 19.5 m in diameter. It has a clearly defined entrance to the east. Enclosure R is not attached to a house, but one massive main wall of the surrounding field system runs north from its northwest corner. It is more irregular in plan, measuring 26 m east-west and 24 m north-south. The double walls (M on Ogston's plan) have been interpreted as a droveway. The surrounding birch woods contain many stone banks and walls of a sizeable system of large enclosures as well as traces of cord-rig cultivation. Survey and sample excavation was carried out in March 2016 - March 2017, Reopening of three antiquarian trenches investigated two souterrain structures and the junction between two overlapping roundhouse walls at the main group. Dates for the lower roundhouse ranged between the early 2nd and late 1st century BC, the upper one dating from the 1st century BC to the earliest 3rd century AD.

OGSTON, A, 1931, PREHIST ANTIQ HOWE OF CROMAR, 20-7 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1358.

SIMPSON, WD, 1943, PROVINCE OF MAR, 64 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1676.

SHEPHERD, IAG, 1988, THE PREHISTORIC SOCIETY SUMMER CONFERENCE 1988: ABERDEEN AND NORTH EAST SCOTLAND, 44-5 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1744.

SHEPHERD, I, 1996, ABERDEEN AND NORTH-EAST SCOTLAND (2ND ED), pp.140-1 (Bibliographic reference). SAB4829.

ROMANKIEWICZ, T, 2020, OLD KINORD, ABERDEENSHIRE: SURVEY AND EXCAVATION AT AN IRON AGE SETTLEMENT ON DEESIDE IN PSAS 149, 221-247 (Bibliographic reference). SAB3157.

JAMES, M, 2023, THE SURVIVAL AND DETECTION OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONUMENTS IN THE HOWE OF CROMAR (Bibliographic reference). SAB948.

Aug 30 1991 , NK 19-24, NK 19-24 (Ground Photograph). SAB33449.

Feb 10 2011 , AAS/2011/1/DG3207-9, AAS/2011/1/DG3207-9 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB13277.

Feb 10 2011 , AAS/2011/1/DG3212-4, 3216, AAS/2011/1/DG3212-4, 3216 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB13278.

Feb 22 2010 , AAS/10/01/DG027-29, AAS/10/01/DG027-29 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB20215.

Jan 25 1985 , AAS/85/01/CT9,11, AAS/85/01/CT9,11 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB19862.

Jan 25 1985 , AAS/85/01/R1(1)/4-17, AAS/85/01/R1(1)/4-17 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB12683.

Jan 25 1985 , AAS/85/01/S1/1-5, AAS/85/01/S1/1-5 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB12682.

Mar 16 2000 , AAS/00/06/CT10-3, AAS/00/06/CT10-3 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB12826.

Mar 16 2000 , AAS/00/06/G20/9-12, AAS/00/06/G20/9-12 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB12827.

May 30 1985 , EL 22-4, EL 22-4 (Ground Photograph). SAB12685.

May 30 1985 , EM 2-16, EM 2-16 (Ground Photograph). SAB12686.

Nov 23 1988 , AAS/88/13/K4/10-3, AAS/88/13/K4/10-3 (Air-oblique Photograph). SAB12684.

Sep 16 2008 , DG9811-2, DG9811-2 (Ground Photograph). SAB19884.

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