Publication Account
Date 1987
Event ID 1085900
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085900
On the flat river-terrace to the south-east of the village there is an unusual medieval earthwork of a class known as homestead moats (NN 734466); described on early editions of Ordnance Survey maps as Praetorium and thought of as part of a Roman camp, it, is in fact a rectangular moat with an inner and formerly an outer bank, within which there would originally have been timber buildings and perhaps a wooden stockade associated with the inner bank. The ditch is about 15 m broad and the central area is about 1.5 m above the level of the surrounding ground. There is an entrance causeway on the eastern flank of the moat.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Fife and Tayside’, (1987).
