Dornock
Enclosure (19th Century)
Site Name Dornock
Classification Enclosure (19th Century)
Canmore ID 25303
Site Number NN81NE 25
NGR NN 88206 18830
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25303
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Crieff
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
Aerial Photographic Transcription (18 December 1995 - 16 July 1996)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
Field Visit (26 March 1997)
NN81NE 25 8820 1883
A ditch visible as a cropmark on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1977-8) describes what may be one end of a rectilinear enclosure lying on a low rise on the N bank of the River Earn. All that survives is the ENE end, the N and S angles and parts of the adjacent sides, that on the SSE cut by the present channel of the River Earn, and that one the NNW by an earlier channel. The enclosure measures 21m in internal breadth and is of unknown length.
Excavations in 1997 by B Hoffmann, Dept of Classics, University College Dublin, suggested that the enclosure may have been a work camp associated with the construction of the railway.
(EARNAP 61)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 26 March 1997.
