Luncarty Home Farm

NO02NE 23 0968 2908.

(NO 0968 2908) Crop marks of double ditched enclosure.

Crawford records what seems to have been a square earthwork at Luncarty, marked on an unpublished 1755 map of Scotland (in British Museum, King's Library, XLVIII, 25, sheet 17) (i.e. W Roy's map (oral information from J N Hampton, 26 October 1965)) and suggests that is the same as 'a long oval rampart of earth' on the land side of the King's Stone (NE02NE 10) mentioned in a book of 1638 edited by James Cant in 1774.

O G S Crawford 1949

There is nothing to be seen at this site which falls in a pasture field.

Visited by OS (JTT) 27 October 1965

Oblique aerial photography has revealed a series of cropmarks including the S, E and N sides of a double-ditched settlement and an enclosure 250m SSW of Luncarty Home Farm. The settlement appears to show different phases of occupation. It is sub-rectangular in shape and measures at least 80m ESE-WNW by 70m transversely with an entrance on the E side. A second ditch is visible on the inner S side, and a narrow cropmark follows the inner edge of the N ditch. Two further arcs of ditch are visible, one is intersecting the S inner ditch and the other is visible above the NE corner of the settlement. A rectangular enclosure is attached to the SE side of this ditch and measures about 30m NE-SW by 20m transversely. It is intersected by a linear cropmark, aligned NNE-SSW (NO02NW 2). Two patches of rig-and-furrow cultivation, aligned NW-SE, are visible to the S and NE of the settlement and there are a number of indeterminate cropmarks and pits scattered across the field.

Information from RCAHMS (KJ) 6 March 2000

A linear feature recorded as a cropmark and lying to the E of the settlement is likely to be a ploughed-down ditch corresponding with a field boundary shown on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1899, Sheet LXXXV N.E.).

Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 6 January 2004