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Latitude: 56.625 / 56°37'29"N
Longitude: -3.6535 / 3°39'12"W
OS Eastings: 298643
OS Northings: 749347
OS Grid: NN986493
Mapcode National: GBR V1.DM3P
Mapcode Global: WH5MY.VRD2
Entry Name: Kincraigie, homestead 170m NNW of
Scheduled Date: 14 January 2002
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM9616
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: homestead
Location: Little Dunkeld
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises a homestead of prehistoric date, visible as an upstanding structure. The monument is situated in arable farmland at approximately 90m OD. The site is depicted as a 'Castle' on the Ordnance Survey First Edition map (1867) and as a 'homestead' on the current Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 map (1977).
The remains comprise a circular stone-built enclosure, measuring c.26.5m in diameter, with an outer facing course of large boulders traceable for most of the circumference. Though there are no certain inner faces, the wall was probably about 3.7m thick, with an entrance in the SE. The homestead has been levelled into the foot of a gentle slope, overlooking and surrounded by good arable land.
Homesteads, sometimes known as ring-forts, are circular stone- and timber-built structures representing farmsteads. They normally date to the Iron Age (from the late first millennium BC to the first half of the first millennium AD).
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to survive. It is circular in shape with a diameter of 50m, as marked in red on the accompanying map. The modern field boundary immediately to the north is excluded from the scheduling.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to contribute to an understanding of prehistoric settlement and economy. Its importance is increased by its proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NN 94 NE 4.
Map reference:
Ordnance Survey 1867 First Edition map (Perthshire) sheet 1, 6 inches to 1 mile.
Ordnance Survey 1977 Tayside, sheet NN94NE, 1:10,000 map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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