Note

Date 28 August 2018

Event ID 1041970

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1041970

In 1962, Dr Margaret Stewart reported the discovery of ‘a circular enclosure with a stone-marked circumference’ to the Archaeology Branch of the Ordnance Survey, with whom she was in regular contact as a local correspondent based in Perth. Despite being provided with a location (NO 1552 6480) the OS not only failed to find the site reported by Stewart but it wrongly assumed that the site reported by her was a natural setting of boulders and stones some 4.2km to the E. However, vertical aerial photographs show that there is indeed an enclosure (NO 1556 6482) less that 20m NE of where Dr Stewart said it was. Subrectangular on plan, it measures internally about 8m from ENE to WSW by 6m transversely. The enclosure is not circular as initially described but the NNW side is bowed outwards and under deep heather its outline could easily be construed as roughly circular.

The photographs also reveal that the enclosure is situated within a rough moorland landscape which also contains what may be a pair of hut circles (NO 1550 6475), each measuring about 10m in overall diameter, 80m to the SW. Some 32m SW of these there are the probable remains of a squat, round-ended building measuring approximately 15m in length from NW to SE (NO 15476 64718).

Information from HES Survey and Recording (GFG) 28 August 2018.