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Latitude: 56.5608 / 56°33'38"N
Longitude: -3.4331 / 3°25'59"W
OS Eastings: 312016
OS Northings: 741897
OS Grid: NO120418
Mapcode National: GBR V6.FQCD
Mapcode Global: WH6PL.7CF8
Entry Name: Mains of Gourdie, ring-ditch 120m SSW of
Scheduled Date: 9 January 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM6895
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: hut circle, roundhouse
Location: Caputh
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a ring-ditch of prehistoric date, visible as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland at around 40m OD. It comprises a circular, ditched enclosure, measuring about 14m in internal diameter, within a ditch about 5m broad. It has an entrance on the NNW. Although probably representing the remains of a large timber roundhouse of later prehistoric date, the relatively large width of the ditch relative to the interior suggests that the monument might represent the remains of a much earlier henge, a type of ceremonial monument dating to the later Neolithic.
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 circular with a diameter of 55m, 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, or, if it is interpreted as a henge, prehistoric ritual practices.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 14 SW 18.
Aerial Photographs used:
CUCAP (1953) PT/13917 NO14SW18.
CUCAP (1953) PT/13918 NO14SW18.
RCAHMS (1989) PT/10964/TR NO14SW18.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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