Description

The monument comprises two palisaded settlements of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.

The monument lies in arable farmland at around 25m OD. It comprises two roughly circular ditched enclosures, each measuring about 40m in diameter and defined by a ditch measuring about 1m wide. Amorphous cropmarks in the immediate vicinity of the enclosures probably represent the remains of associated structures. A palisade is a timber fence of closely spaced posts set into a continuous narrow trench. Enclosed settlements such as these are characteristic of the first half of the first millennium BC.

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 with maximum dimensions of 220m from its northernmost point to its southernmost point and between 80m and 90m transversely, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The area is bounded on the N by a fence, which is itself excluded from scheduling,

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland