Description

The monument comprises a palisaded settlement and an enclosure of prehistoric date, visible as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs.

The monument lies in arable farmland at around 15m OD and is made up of two elements. The palisaded settlement is visible as an oval ditched enclosure, measuring about 32m NW-SE by 26m transversely, with a ditch about 1m wide. There is an entrance on the NE. The ditch would have held a timber palisade of tightly packed posts, which would have enclosed a farming settlement. The second enclosure is subcircular, measuring about 20m NNE-SSW by 15m transversely over a ditch approximately 2m wide. This enclosure is most likely to represent the remains of a substantial timber building, but it may have fulfilled another function. Settlements such as this are characteristic of the first millennium BC, but it is not obvious from the current evidence whether these two enclosures represent contemporary structures or if they were built decades or even centuries apart.

The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around and between them where material related to their construction and use may be expected to survive. It measures a maximum of about 120m along its long axis by 60m transversely, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland