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Submitted by tyrianterror on Monday, 25 June 2007 Page Views: 6237

Multi-periodSite Name: Picts House
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 2.348 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Aberdeenshire Type: Misc. Earthwork
Nearest Town: Fraserburgh Nearest Village: Strichen
Map Ref: NJ92365963
Latitude: 57.626565N Longitude: 2.12958W
Condition:

5	Perfect
4	Almost Perfect
3	Reasonable but with some damage
2	Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1	Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0	No data.
-1	Completely destroyed

1 Ambience:

5	Superb
4	Good
3	Ordinary
2	Not Good
1	Awful
0	No data.

1 Access:

5	Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4	Short walk on a footpath
3	Requiring a bit more of a walk
2	A long walk
1	In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0	No data.

no data Accuracy:

5	co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4	co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3	co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2	co-ordinates of the nearest village
1	co-ordinates of the nearest town
0	no data

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**Picts House** submitted by tyrianterror : Possible 'Earth-House' location at Picts House. If correct, in relation to the mapscan I'd say the 'house' was located in RHS bank, pity those damned trees are there now!!!! (Vote or comment on this photo)

Site of enclosure/cairn, described as a small enclosure of earth & stones, in Aberdeenshire

Though location would be suitable for a cairn there is nothing on surface to indicate any surviving remains. Its description suggests that it may have been similar to the cairn OS NJ85NE005. However on a vertical aerial photographs taken in 1977 there appears to be a very low, slightly raised bank of a circular feature visible. On an other photo taken in 1988 there also appears to be a very faint trace of a circular feature still surviving at this location though more as a crop mark.
References
ORDNANCE SURVEY, (1866) Ordnance Name Book
EDINBURGH, No90(1870) 53

I would add on an old map I/we have there is location details of there having been an 'earth-house' on or near this site. The general site now is grown up in an accursed conifer plantation.
I have one photograph of what I believe may be close to the site of the Earthhouse.
I can remember years ago before the trees of there being a stone feature on the surface, similar to a topless cist but larger.
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