Aerial Photographic Interpretation
Date 31 May 2022
Event ID 1152879
Category Recording
Type Aerial Photographic Interpretation
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1152879
This enclosed settlement is situated on the S side of a low rise between the canalised course of the Ballancollantie Burn and a minor tributary, and has been recorded as cropmarking on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1992, 2008). It is oval on plan, with an outer circuit comprising a ditch measuring about 3.5m in breadth which is broken on the N, W and E. The gaps on the E and W have rounded terminals and may be genuine gaps in the original circuit. There is a slight kink in the line of the ditch in the SW arc that may represent phasing in construction. Set some 3m from the inner lip of the ditch there is a palisade trench, or perhaps a revetment at the rear of a rampart, which describes a circuit of about 42m in diameter. This is broken on the N and the SE and is not evident around the S arc. Offset to the N of the circuit described by the palisade there is a roughly oval solid marking roughly 18m in diameter that may mark the dished interior of a round house. This settlement lies about 150m WNW of a palisaded enclosure (NX15NW 79.4) and 180m W of a second (NX15NW 79.2).
Information from HES Archaeological Survey (D. Cowley) 31 May 2022.
