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Latitude: 56.5606 / 56°33'38"N
Longitude: -3.4364 / 3°26'11"W
OS Eastings: 311813
OS Northings: 741879
OS Grid: NO118418
Mapcode National: GBR V6.FPM4
Mapcode Global: WH6PL.5CVF
Entry Name: Middle Gourdie, unenclosed settlement 400m SE of
Scheduled Date: 9 January 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6894
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Caputh
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises an unenclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland on a low rise at around 40m. It comprises four conjoined disc-shaped cropmarks, each measuring up to 10m in diameter, which are arranged in a row aligned ENE-WSW. Such cropmarks are characteristic of later prehistoric timber roundhouses and the site appears, therefore, to represent a small prehistoric settlement.
Some 15m to the WSW of the settlement is a curved cropmark measuring about 12m in length which appears to represent the remains of a souterrain. Souterrains were semi-subterranean structures generally thought to have been used for storage in later prehistory.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is sub-rectangular, with maximum dimensions of 75m ENE-WSW by 45m, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to our understanding of prehistoric settlement and economy. Its importance is increased by its proximity to monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 14 SW 38.
Aerial Photographs used:
RCAHMS (1984) A64706 NO14SW38.
RCAHMS (1989) B22685 NO14SW38.
RCAHMS (1989) A64706/TR NO14SW38.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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