Description

The monument comprises a palisaded settlement dating to the Iron Age (800 BC – AD 400), visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs. The monument lies in arable farmland at around 16m above sea level.

The settlement is defined by a ditch about 1m wide, forming a subcircular enclosure measuring 37m from northwest to southeast by 43m across. The entrance is most likely to have been in the west or southwest although this is not clear from the available imagery. The ditch is the remains of a trench in which a timber palisade fence of closely spaced posts would have been set. Within this settlement is at least one roundhouse measuring 15m southwest to northeast and visible in aerial imagery as two crescent shaped ditches.

The scheduled area is a clipped circle 70m in diameter. It includes the remains described above and an area around within which evidence relating to the monument's construction, use and abandonment is expected to survive, as shown in red on the accompanying map. It excludes all above ground elements of the current post and wire fencing to allow for its maintenance.

 

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/80258/

HER/SMR Reference

MDG8863

Source: Historic Environment Scotland