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Latitude: 56.5494 / 56°32'57"N
Longitude: -3.3471 / 3°20'49"W
OS Eastings: 317280
OS Northings: 740521
OS Grid: NO172405
Mapcode National: GBR V8.X6F2
Mapcode Global: WH6PM.KNC1
Entry Name: Nether Gothens, enclosure S of
Scheduled Date: 17 December 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7162
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure
Location: Lethendy
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a palisaded enclosure of prehistoric date, visible as a series of cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 45m OD. It comprises a rectilinear enclosure measuring about 115m NW-SE by 100m, within a ditch, probably for a palisade (a form of timber stockade) about 2m wide. There is an entrance on the SE some 15m across. A short length of ditch, about 25m long and 50m from the S corner, butts onto the SW side of the enclosure at right angles.
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 irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 160m between its N- and S-most points, and 175m between its E- and W-most points, 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 the understanding of prehistoric settlement and economy.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 14 SE 28.
Aerial Photographs used:
RCAHMS (1983) PT/14728 NO14SE28, 89.
RCAHMS (1990) B44188 NO14SE28, 89.
RCAHMS (1988) PT/14729/TR NO14SE28, 89.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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