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Bochastle
Palisaded Settlement(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Bochastle
Classification Palisaded Settlement(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 24339
Site Number NN60NW 19
NGR NN 61077 07931
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24339
- Council Stirling
- Parish Callander
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
Two overlapping cropmark enclosures, recorded through aerial reconnaissance, are located about 200m NW of Bochastle farmhouse. The first, larger enclosure (at NO 6107 0793) is narrow-ditched and oval measuring about 36m E-W by at least 40m N-S although the line of the enclosure is not clear on the N and S sides. There is evidence of an internal structure, possibly a circle some 12m in diameter, as well as at least four pits. The second smaller enclosure, which overlaps the first on the W (at NO 6105 0793), is circular and measures about 18m within a very narrow, probably palisaded, ditch. There may be internal features but these are obscured. (See site NN60NW 18 for another enclosure to the S.)
Transcription prepared by RCAHMS (RHM, MMB) 22 February 1996.
Information from RCAHMS (RHM) 17 September 1996.
Note (1979)
Bochastle 2 NN 610 079 NN60NW
These crop-marks show a circular enclosure, measuring about 15m in diameter, which lies astride the perimeter of an oval enclosure measuring about 42m by 35m. Within the larger enclosure there are slight indications of what may be the site of a timber house, and what may be a small sub-rectangular feature lies across the perimeter on the N side of the large
enclosure.
RCAHMS 1979
Aerial Photographic Transcription (28 November 1995 - 1 May 1996)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Note (21 November 2022)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from PALISADED ENCLOSURE (PERIOD UNASSIGNED)(POSSIBLE), SETTLEMENT (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).
