Westfield
Ring Ditch (Prehistoric)
Site Name Westfield
Classification Ring Ditch (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 33581
Site Number NO44NW 11
NGR NO 44367 49745
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33581
- Council Angus
- Parish Forfar
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO44NW 11 4437 4974.
Scheduled (with NO44NW 13 and NO44NW 14 ) as Westfield, enclosures NW of.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated July 1994.
This ring-ditch is plotted as a possible Class I henge on a distribution map of henge monuments, ring-cairns, pit-circles and recumbent stone circles covering central and eastern Scotland (RCAHMS 1994, 39, fig. A).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG) 17 October 1997.
Note (1983)
Westfield NO 443 497 NO44NW 11
Cropmarks reveal a ring-ditch 110m NW of Westfield farmhouse and immediately SW of the enclosure NO44NW 14. It measures 15m in diameter within a broad ditch, and there are traces of a concentric ditch within the interior.
RCAHMS 1983.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (9 October 2017)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 9 October 2019.
