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Latitude: 56.5567 / 56°33'24"N
Longitude: -3.4512 / 3°27'4"W
OS Eastings: 310898
OS Northings: 741470
OS Grid: NO108414
Mapcode National: GBR V6.FS76
Mapcode Global: WH5NF.YGRD
Entry Name: Middle Gourdie, palisaded enclosure & unenclosed settlement 800m SW of
Scheduled Date: 8 December 1997
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7185
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: palisaded enclosure
Location: Caputh
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Strathtay
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument consists of a palisaded enclosure and an unenclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland, on a gravel river terrace at about 45m OD. On the S of the site is a D-shaped palisaded enclosure, which backs onto the steep escarpment which forms the edge of the river terrace. It measures about 38m E-W by 21m internally, within a palisade trench about 1m wide.
Outside the enclosure, about 10m to the N, there is a curving cropmark, measuring about 11m in length, which appears to represent the remains of a souterrain. To the SE of this, there is a further crescentic cropmark about 10m across, which appears to represent the remains of a timber roundhouse, or perhaps a second souterrain. Souterrains are semi-subterranean structures generally thought to have been used for storage in later prehistory.
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 in shape with maximum dimensions of 80m E-W by 70m N-S, 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. Its importance is increased by its close proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 14 SW 19.
Aerial Photographs used:
CUCAP (1961) PT/1019/po NO14SW19, 30, 65.
CUCAP (1970) A35131/po NO14SW19, 30, 66.
RCAHMS (1989) A30134/TR NO14SW19, 30, 65, 72.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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