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No. 271 -- MISCELLANEOUS EARTHWORKS AND ENCLOSURES -- No. 275

271 Earthwork, Blairlinn (Site). The crop-mark of
an unrecorded earthwork lying 490 m WNW of Luggie
Bridge is visible on RAF air photographs taken in
August 1947 (82/RAF/1236, F21, 0187-8). The site,
formerly in arable land but now buried by part of the
Blairlinn Industrial Area, occupies the NW tip of a
stretch of level ground bounded on the N and W by the
river cliff of the Luggie Water. The angle of land thus
formed above the river has been cut off by a ditch
approximately 80 m long and 5 m wide, the area enclosed
being roughly triangular in shape and measuring 75 m
from SW to NE by 60 m transversely.

758729 -- NS 77 SE -- September 1974

272 Earthwork, Boghall. On low-lying ground about
1 km S of Biggar there is an earthwork measuring about
76 m in internal diameter, which has been bisected by
the public road from Biggar to Hartree. The portion
of the earthwork that lies W of the road (Fig. 87) has
been severely reduced by cultivation, but some slight
remains survive of double banks and a medial ditch. On
the N, where they are best preserved, both banks are
spread to a thickness of 10.7 m; the inner bank stands
to a height of only 0.2 m internally and 1.2 m above the
bottom of the ditch, while the outer bank rises to 0.5 m
above the ditch and 0.8 m above the level of the ground
outside. The portion of the earthwork that lies E of the
road has been almost completely obliterated, but can
be seen as shadow-marks on RAF air photographs
(543/RAF/2042, F21, 0136-7). There is no indication
of an entrance.

038365 -- NT 03 NW -- April 1972

273 Enclosure, Bogton (Site). This enclosure, whose
presence is disclosed by a crop-mark on an air photo-
graph (CUCAP no. E 47), is situated on the NE end
of a low ridge 325 m SSW of Bogton farmhouse. It
appears to be roughly circular on plan and measures
about 30 m in diameter within a single ditch. The
position of the entrance is uncertain.

620730 -- NS 67 SW -- November 1975

274 Earthwork, Brownsbank 1 (Site). An oval
earthwork, measuring approximately 45 m by 30 m
within double ditches, is revealed by crop-marks on air
photographs taken by the Cambridge University Com-
mittee for Aerial Photography and by the Commission
(CUCAP no. JU 70; NMRS nos. LA 1484-5) on low
ground at the foot of an arable field 230 m SE of Browns-
bank farmhouse. The ditches are about 26 m apart, and
each is at least 2 m in width. No remains are visible on
the ground.

080420 -- NT 04 SE -- August 1975

275 Enclosure, Brownsbank 2. A wasted enclosure,
first detected from shadow-marks on RAF air photo-
graphs (543/RAF/2042, F22, 0126-7), is situated on a

[Drawing inserted]

Fig. 87. Earthwork, Boghall (No. 272)

shoulder of arable ground which projects from the lower
W slopes of Broomy Law 780 m NNW of Brownsbank
farmhouse.
Roughly sub-rectangular on plan, it measures approxi-
mately 12 m from NE to SW by 7.5 m transversely
within a single bank 4 m in thickness, which now stands
only 0.2 m above the level of the interior. The bank is
accompanied by intermittent traces of an external ditch
which, when sectioned by one of the Commission's
officers, proved to be flat-bottomed, measuring 1.9 m
wide and 0.6 m deep, with vertical sides; it was separated
from the bank by a berm 1.5 m wide. A curious feature
was the presence in the bottom of post-holes which had
held upright timbers set against both vertical faces of

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