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No. 276 -- MISCELLANEOUS EARTHWORKS AND ENCLOSURES -- No. 279

the ditch. Two small fragments of coarse hand-made
pottery which were recovered from topsoil in the course
of excavation, while not closely datable, bear a marked
resemblance to certain Iron Age wares of the Tyne-Forth
Province.

073428 -- NT 04 SE -- October 1975

276 Earthwork, Burghmuir (Site). Crop-markings on
air photographs (CUCAP nos. A 12, E 18, AZI 15) dis-
close a sub-rectangular earthwork (Pl. 14A) situated in
an arable field 250 m SE of Burghmuir farmhouse.
Nothing can be seen on the surface of the ground, which
slopes down towards the lane leading from Biggar to
Biggar Moss, but the photographs indicate what has
probably been a bank and external ditch enclosing an
area measuring about 75 m by 60 m, with a wide gap
in the centre of the NW side and another at the E corner.
Covering the whole of the NW side there has been an
annexe bounded by a ditch and with a gap in line with
that of the main enclosure.

051381 -- NT 03 NE -- November 1975

277 Enclosures, Burnfoot (Sites). Two adjacent
ditched enclosures (Pl. 14B), situated on a terrace on the
E bank of the River Clyde a little to the N of Burnfoot,
are revealed by crop-marks on air photographs (CUCAP
nos. BVB 103 and BVK 83). The more northerly is
approximately circular, measuring about 90 m in dia-
meter within two broad and widely spaced ditches. It
may have been entered on the E side where there are two
possible breaks in the line of the ditches, or through a
much larger gap on the W. A polygonal enclosure
formed by a single ditch, which can be seen immediately
to the S, is somewhat larger; it is probably later in date
as it appears to cut across the ditches of the other
enclosure.

991405 -- NS 94 SE -- August 1976

278 Enclosure, Busby Glen. Inside the public park
on the E lip of the gorge of the White Cart Water, at
a point where the river bends slightly to the NW, a low
bank, 4.8 m in thickness and 0.5 m in height, cuts off
a roughly triangular area measuring 18 m from N to S
by 21 m transversely (Fig. 88). The site has been

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Fig. 88. Enclosure, Busby Glen (No. 278)

disturbed by the planting and removal of trees and by
the insertion of a concrete foundation, but three large
boulders lying close together on the N side may represent
part of a revetment for the bank. The entrance lies in the
extreme NW, alongside the cliff edge.

579567 -- NS 55 NE -- March 1975

279 Earthwork, Cadzow. This earthwork is situated
275 m SSW of the ruins of Cadzow Castle on a pro-
montory overlooking steep natural slopes that fall as
much as 23 m to the Avon Water on the E and to an
unnamed tributary on the N. Roughly D-shaped on plan
(Fig. 89), measuring about 48 m internally along the
chord by a maximum of 40 m transversely, the earthwork
appears to have consisted of two banks and a medial
ditch; but a field boundary and a track of comparatively

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Fig. 89. Earthwork, Cadzow (No. 279)

recent date have severely damaged the earlier structures,
and any bank that may originally have existed on the
inner edge of the ditch has been completely levelled.
The ditch and outer bank are best preserved on the SW
where they run across the neck of the promontory, the
ditch measuring 2.4 m in depth and up to 9 m in width
and the bank standing up to 2.1 m in height. Elsewhere,
however, the ditch is virtually the only feature that
survives, and there is no indication that either the banks
or the ditch ever continued along the N side. The
entrance probably lay somewhere within the wide gap
on the WNW.

734534 -- NS 75 SW -- May 1975

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