This site is entirely user-supported. See how you can help.
We don't have any photos of this monument yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible, towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.
Latitude: 56.0079 / 56°0'28"N
Longitude: -3.8437 / 3°50'37"W
OS Eastings: 285140
OS Northings: 680975
OS Grid: NS851809
Mapcode National: GBR 1H.TDGV
Mapcode Global: WH4PT.X8V3
Entry Name: Wester Carmuirs, ring ditch 500m NW of Carmuirs West Junction
Scheduled Date: 30 July 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6415
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house
Location: Falkirk
County: Falkirk
Electoral Ward: Bonnybridge and Larbert
Traditional County: Stirlingshire
The monument comprises the remains of a ring ditch house of later prehistoric date represented by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 30m OD. It comprises a ring ditch some 10m in diameter within a ditch up to about 2m wide. There is a SE-facing entrance. A darker patch inside the ring ditch may represent surviving internal deposits. The monument is located close to Wester Carmuirs Roman camp (which lies to the S) and Wester Carmuirs enclosures (which lie to the W).
Ring ditches such as this have been shown on excavation to represent the remains of timber roundhouses of the later prehistoric period.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the cropmarks and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is circular with a diameter of 50m as marked in red on the accompanying map.
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 enhanced by its proximity to possibly contemporary sites, both Roman and native.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NS 88 SE 36.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Other nearby scheduled monuments