Condition

5
?Clearance/?Dyke
Highland

Description

Eroding from a 30 m long erosion scar 14 m from the cliff-edge is a grassed over heap of angular boulders (up to 0.45 m across) covering an area of 5 m N-S by 5.5 m. Also visible in this erosion scar, 7 m E of the stone spread, is a thin band (0.03 m thick) of brown sand with abundant organic particles and charcoal flecks which lies between layers of pale brown, windblown sand and is 2 m long, lying 0.5 m below the present ground surface. The stone spread may be field-clearance and the organic deposit an old agricultural layer. N of the stone spread and running almost to the cliff-edge is the collapsed remnants of a dry-stone dyke. The stone spread that this has created is not grassed over and looks far more recent than the first described, which it almost abutts. August 2014 Stone spread and old ground surface much as described, stone spread thought to possibly be the remains of revetting for the trackway. Collapsed stone dyke to north appears to have been rebuilt since the original survey, but a low spread of stone along the line of the dyke is probably the remains of the original collapsed wall recorded by the original survey.

Location

240202.00
969254.00
27700
58.5818062
-4.7502670

Submitted photographs

Image Date Caption User
Burragaig - stone mound 30/08/2014 Burragaig - stone mound training1
Burragaig - stone mound
Burragaig old ground surface visible in section 30/08/2014 Burragaig old ground surface visible in section training1
Burragaig old ground surface visible in section

Submitted updates

Update id Date User
1743 30/08/2014 training1
Tidal state Mid
Site located? Yes
Proximity to coast edge < 10m
Coastally eroding? active wind erosion (in dunes only)
Visibility above ground Highly visible (substantial remains)
Visibility in section Limited visibility in section
Access easily accessible - no restrictions; accessible on foot (footpath)
Local knowledge don't know
Description Eroding from a 30 m long erosion scar 14 m from the cliff-edge is a grassed over heap of angular boulders (up to 0.45 m across) covering an area of 5 m N-S by 5.5 m. Also visible in this erosion scar, 7 m E of the stone spread, is a thin band (0.03 m thick) of brown sand with abundant organic particles and charcoal flecks which lies between layers of pale brown, windblown sand and is 2 m long, lying 0.5 m below the present ground surface. The stone spread may be field-clearance and the organic deposit an old agricultural layer. N of the stone spread and running almost to the cliff-edge is the collapsed remnants of a dry-stone dyke. The stone spread that this has created is not grassed over and looks far more recent than the first described, which it almost abutts. August 2014 Stone spread and old ground surface much as described, stone spread thought to possibly be the remains of reverting for the trackway. Collapsed stone dyke to north appears to have been rebuilt since the original survey, but a low spread of stone along the line of the dyke is probably the remains of the original collapsed wall

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