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Ironshill
Enclosure (Iron Age)(Possible), Unenclosed Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Ironshill
Classification Enclosure (Iron Age)(Possible), Unenclosed Settlement (Iron Age)
Canmore ID 35404
Site Number NO64NE 27
NGR NO 6701 4989
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35404
- Council Angus
- Parish Inverkeilor
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO64NE 27 670 499.
NO 670 499. A probable unenclosed settlement has been located SW of Ironshill on the E side of the railway. Two circular crop-marks, which measure about 10m in diameter, probably represent the sites of houses, and there is a circle of pits of similar dimensions near by. Another house, measuring about 8m in diameter, obscures the N corner of what is possibly an enclosure measuring about 25m square.
RCAHMS 1978
The circular arrangement of post-holes noted above could be interpreted as a house of individual post-hole construction, or, perhaps less likely, as a post-circle surviving beneath a ploughed-out barrow.
H Welfare 1980
Tolan notes a pit-circle partially obscured by the halo of a ditch at NO 6703 4498.
M Tolan 1988
Field Visit (March 1978)
Ironshill 1 NO 670 499 NO64NE
A probable unenclosed settlement has been located SW of Ironshill on the E side of the railway. Two circular crop-marks, which measure about 10m in diameter, probably represent the sites of houses, and there is a circle of pits of similar dimensions nearby. Another house, measuring about 8m in diameter, obscures the N corner of what is possibly an enclosure measuring about 25m square.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
