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Common Hill
Enclosure(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Field System (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Plantation Bank (Post Medieval), Quarry (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Post Medieval), Track(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Common Hill
Classification Enclosure(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Field System (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Plantation Bank (Post Medieval), Quarry (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Post Medieval), Track(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 219321
Site Number NN90SW 56
NGR NN 9466 0489
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/219321
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blackford
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Field Visit (19 March 1998)
NN90SW 56 9466 0489
A complex field-system, three discrete enclosures, a plantation bank and a sheepfold are disposed across the eastern flank of Common Hill. A series of trackways (see also NN90SW 61) extend along the slope, one of them leading from a large quarry towards the Lower Glendevon Reservoir.
The field-system comprises six conjoined irregularly-shaped plots, bounded by turf banks and scored by the ephemeral furrows of rig measuring about 5m across. The fields abut each other in a manner suggesting a process of progressive expansion and individual field-banks show evidence of remodelling. A narrow gap between two of the fields may have been a trackway. A substantial field-bank, possibly a head-dyke, cuts across the easternmost field. The S extremity of the field-system is overlain by the NW end of a rectangular turf-banked plantation enclosure (NN 9467 0488). This is laid out across the slope and shown for the first time on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire and Clackmannanshire 1866, sheet cxxvii). The NE side of the plantation is cut by a large quarry, which forms a large, flat terrace on the hillside; the quarry has also destroyed the SE side of the field-system. On the floor of the quarry there is a rectangular sheepfold with a wing-wall to the SE (NN 9475 0491).
On the hillside to the SW of the field-system there are three discrete, turf-banked enclosures (NN 9452 0486, NN 9452 0476, NN 9441 0464), the largest of which measures about 80m square. The south-westernmost of these abuts the N side of a long, narrow, subrectangular enclosure (from NN 9418 0449 to NN 9453 0463) laid out against the edge of the terrace above the river.
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 19 March 1998
