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Latitude: 56.3882 / 56°23'17"N
Longitude: -3.2046 / 3°12'16"W
OS Eastings: 325725
OS Northings: 722420
OS Grid: NO257224
Mapcode National: GBR 28.1D0J
Mapcode Global: WH6QG.RP6L
Entry Name: Tay Lodge, ring-ditch 310m WNW of
Scheduled Date: 25 September 1998
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7233
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: house
Location: Errol
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Carse of Gowrie
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a ring-ditch house of prehistoric date, visible as a series of cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies on fairly level ground in arable farmland. It comprises a broad circular ditch, measuring about 25m in overall diameter, with the ditch about 4m wide. There appears to be an entrance on the NE. Within the interior there is an amorphous cropmark measuring about 12m in diameter, which appears to indicate the presence of surviving internal deposits. Ring-ditches such as this have been found on excavation to represent the remains of timber roundhouses of later prehistoric date.
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 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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
Historic Environment Scotland http://www.canmore.org.uk reference number CANMORE ID 30472 (accessed on 28/11/2019).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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