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Westerton
Pit(S) (Period Unknown), Settlement (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Site Name Westerton
Classification Pit(S) (Period Unknown), Settlement (Period Unknown)(Possible)
Canmore ID 149504
Site Number NN81SE 22
NGR NN 8738 1469
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/149504
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Muthill
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Aerial Photographic Transcription (5 February 1997 - 13 February 1997)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Field Visit (25 November 1997)
NN81SE 22 8738 1469
Cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1982) reveal what may be parts of a narrow ditch enclosing a settlement (EARNAP 120). The cropmark shows two arcs of ditch, which converge towards a gap on the E; this may have been the entrance. The enclosure may extend into the adjacent field, which had been cropped on the date of the photograph, and measures about 65m across. The line of the Roman road (NN81SE 11,RR 9a, Camelon - Ardoch - Strageath) is visible to the NNE as two rows of quarry pits, and must run across the centre of the enclosure, although it is not visible amongst the cropmarkings, perhaps indicating that the enclosure post-dates the road or that greater erosion on the top of the rise has removed all traces of the road. A scatter of pits (EARNAP 121), of unknown function and falling outwith the lines of quarry pits associated with the road, lie to the E and SE of the enclosure.
(EARNAP 120-1)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 25 November 1997
