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Park Knowe
Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Park Knowe
Classification Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 124302
Site Number NT03SW 86
NGR NT 047 308
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/124302
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Culter
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT03SW 86 047 308
Enclosing the summit of Park Knowe, Culter (527m OD) there is a circular enclosure within a turf bank 2,4m in thickness and standing to a maximum height of 0.4m. The bank is flanked on each side by slight hollows about 2m wide, which appear to represent the area stripped of turf to build the bank. Surface indications suggested that a groove, visible on the crest of the bank, might have been the remains of a palisade trench. Limited excavation by the Commission's Officers showed, however, that the bank was of recent date and was constructed of two stacks of turf produced the central groove. The function of the enclosure is uncertain, but it may have been a plantation bank.
Visited by RCAHMS (JBS) August 1976
