More information : (NZ 64511205 to 64521247)Earthwork (NR). (1)
Earthwork, one third of a mile long, comprising a broad low rampart
with remains of a ditch on W side. Surmounting the rampart, a line
of 35 standing stones, 3-5ft high. (2)
North Ings cross ridge dike. (3)
A cross-ridge dyke running from Tidkinhow Slack, a stream gulley on
the N side of the ridge, at NZ 6453 1272, 770.0m due S to North Ings
Slack a stream gulley at NZ 6451 1195 on the S side of the ridge.
From the N the first 275m is visible only as a slight outer scarp on
the W side with the ditch almost completely infilled.
For the next 410m southwards the best preserved central section
consists of a rampart 5.0m average width and about 1.2m maximum
height with a line of standing stones set into its E side, and a
ditch, occasionally silted up, but averaging 3.0m wide and 1.0m
deep, on its W side. The rampart has been mutilated by old tracks
and robbing and no definite original entrance is discernible. The
line of stones, some fallen and some almost completely covered by
peat, but the greater majority still standing, appear to be in
settings of two or three as well as single. They are mostly set
parallel to the rampart and a typical example is 1.0m high, 0.5m
long and 03m thick.
For the final 85m the rampart and ditch have completely
disappeared leaving only a few standing stones to reveal its course.
Surveyed at 1:10 000. (4)
NZ 645124-NZ645120. Line of stones, formerly known as Bride Stones.
Part of old earthwork, possibly Early Bronze Age. (5)
The Bronze Age stone alignment and Bronze Age/Iron Age cross ridge dyke are visible as structures and earthworks on air photographs, centred at NZ 6453 1228. A total of 21 standing stones were visible, with others presumably under dense vegetation cover. These extend for at least 315m south to north. The dyke is intermittently visible as a ditch flanked by a bank to the east and is visible for 610m. The features are extant on the latest 2009 vertical photography.
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