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Oblique aerial view centred on the sequence of defensive ditches, revealed as cropmarks, around the fort at Wester Carmuirs. Within the fort there are traces of a roundhouse.The cropmarks of a palisad ...
SC 354321
Description Oblique aerial view centred on the sequence of defensive ditches, revealed as cropmarks, around the fort at Wester Carmuirs. Within the fort there are traces of a roundhouse.The cropmarks of a palisaded enclosure (NS88SW 50), also containing a roundhouse, are also visible on the photograph.
Catalogue Number SC 354321
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ST 2992
Scope and Content Cropmarks near Wester Carmuirs, Falkirk In 1978 aerial photography revealed the cropmarks of two settlement sites near Wester Carmuirs farm, just outside Falkirk. Likely to be of prehistoric date, these overlapping cropmarks represent two double-ditched settlements (one is D-shaped and the other is roughly oval). Both have entrances in the east. Within the enclosures the small eye-shaped mark may be a hut-circle. Aerial survey can reveal the remains of buried archaeological sites. Cereal crops, such as barley grow to different heights: there is better growth over a buried ditch than over buried stones. This height difference is visible from the air as a cropmark. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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