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 23m above sea level.

The settlement is defined by a ditch about 1m wide, forming a subcircular enclosure measuring 44m from northest to southeast by 40m across. A 4m wide gap on the south-southwest side may be an entrance. 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 a roundhouse measuring 10m northwest to southeast and visible as two crescent shaped ditches. There are also at least 7 pits ranging in size from 0.9m to 1.5m long of uncertain date and function within the interior.

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 telephone pole and post and wire fencing to allow for their maintenance.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/60462/

HER/SMR Reference

MDG627

Source: Historic Environment Scotland