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Latitude: 54.8618 / 54°51'42"N
Longitude: -4.9716 / 4°58'17"W
OS Eastings: 209378
OS Northings: 555936
OS Grid: NX093559
Mapcode National: GBR GH3V.MH0
Mapcode Global: WH2SM.L2S6
Entry Name: Camserney, enclosure and palisaded settlement 225m ESE of
Scheduled Date: 28 February 2000
Last Amended: 3 June 2024
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM7364
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Stoneykirk
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument comprises a palisaded settlement and enclosure likely to date to the later prehistoric period, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs. The monument lies in arable farmland at around 15m above sea level.
The palisaded settlement is defined by pair of ditches, both about 1m wide and between 1m and 3m apart, forming a subcircular enclosure measuring 38m from north to south by 33m across. A possible entrance can be seen in the south of the enclosure. The ditches are the remains of trenches in which a timber palisade fence of closely spaced posts would have been set. A later field boundary or drain is also visible running north-south through the palisaded settlement. Around 70m east southeast of the palisaded settlement lies the enclosure, circular on plan measuring around 18m in diameter internally. The ditch appears to be around 2 to 3m wide with a break in the west for an entrance. This is likely to be the remains of a prehistoric house.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is sub-rectangular, with maximum dimensions of 125m west northwest-east southeast by 60m transversely, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as it makes a significant contribution to our understanding or appreciation of the past, or has the potential to do so as a grouping of prehistoric enclosed settlements. The monument is an important indicator of later prehistoric settlement and associated activity in southwest Scotland. It retains structural field characteristics in buried stratigraphic layers demonstrated by crop marks and has research potential which could significantly contribute to our understanding or appreciation of the past and specifically, information about the changing nature of settlement, agriculture, economy and population during later prehistoric period. The relationship between the components comprising the monument is of particular significance.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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https://canmore.org.uk/site/60529/
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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