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Camserney, enclosure and palisaded settlement 225m ESE of

A Scheduled Monument in Stranraer and the Rhins, Dumfries and Galloway

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Coordinates

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

Description

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

Statement of Scheduling

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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Canmore

https://canmore.org.uk/site/60529/

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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