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Latitude: 56.5787 / 56°34'43"N
Longitude: -3.2608 / 3°15'38"W
OS Eastings: 322642
OS Northings: 743680
OS Grid: NO226436
Mapcode National: GBR VB.PGG1
Mapcode Global: WH6PG.WXD3
Entry Name: Ryehill, unenclosed settlement 400m NNW of
Scheduled Date: 16 October 1997
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7316
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: settlement
Location: Bendochy
County: Perth and Kinross
Electoral Ward: Blairgowrie and Glens
Traditional County: Perthshire
The monument comprises an unenclosed settlement of prehistoric date, visible as a series of cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.
The monument lies in arable farmland on the edge of a terrace on the S bank of River Ericht at around 45m OD. It comprises a circular ditched enclosure, measuring about 20m in internal diameter within a ditch up to 5m wide. To the immediate SE of this enclosure, and partly concentric with it, is a curved cropmark about 26m in length, which probably represents the remains of a souterrain, or semi-subterranean storage building.
Close by, to the WNW, is a sinuous length of ditch some 32m long and other amorphous cropmarks which appear to represent the remains of associated structures, probably including a further souterrain.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related deposits may be expected to be found. It is irregular with maximum dimensions of 160m NW-SE by 90m transversely 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 proximity to other monuments of potentially contemporary date.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NO 24 SW 45.
Aerial Photographs used:
CUCAP (1975) A35234/po NO24SW45, 61.
RCAHMS (1984) A64824 NO24SW45, 62-3.
RCAHMS (1988) A35234/TR NO24SW45.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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